Batch priming stout

kellso81

Just made my first stout and it's ready for bottling, but not too sure about the priming. Can I just use fructose and how much would i need for 24 litres?
thanks

fobster

I use brown sugar dissolved in water and simmered for 10 minutes. I haven't used fructose but it should be similar to cane sugar in having close to 100% fermentability. You can use regular white sugar without any negative impact.

The below link is very handy.

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html

Tube

Stout would be on the low end of carbonation. Around 1.5 vols is plenty.

I use white sugar as it's the cheapest and is 100% fermentable.

mayto

I would carbonate a stout to at least 2.5 vol co2 if you want the head to stay on the beer. I think its fine carbonating a stout low if you are using a beer tap setup but out of a bottle there is not enough co2 to form and keep the head. A lot of darker beers suffer from poor head retention anyway and a low co2 rate will make it worse. Bottles of draught guinness I tried are carbonated really high like wheat beer levels to me.

Tube

If you want better head retention try a pinch of wheat malt in your brew. To me stout should be subtly carbonated.