I am sure this has been covered completely on the forum someplcae, but the search feature continues to disappoint me.
I held back the sugar for a Belgian Golden ale recipie for several reasons, one of them being that I wanted high attenuation before giving the yeast “desert.”
So now I am seeking advice on the best way to add the 2 lbs of sugar. My plan is to
Boil 1/2 gal water.
Turn off heat.
Dislove sugar.
Cool.
Attach hose to botom of (sanitized, of course) funnel (if I can).
I would boil with the sugar for 5-10 minutes to kill anything wild and to eliminate oxygen. Dry sugar contains oxygen that is best expelled through boiling.
[quote=“dmtaylo2”]I would boil with the sugar for 5-10 minutes to kill anything wild and to eliminate oxygen. Dry sugar contains oxygen that is best expelled through boiling.[/quote]Unless you’re boiling or CO2 purging your dryhops, you’re adding O2 with them, especially with leaf hops and even more if you stuff those hops in a bag and then drop it into the beer. I don’t worry about any of that as long as the addition is made gently and the beer is blanketed in CO2 (I wouldn’t open a 2# bag of sugar and just dump it like a cannonball).