http://www.markstaples.com/2008/11/19/bottling-the-full-malt-chilli-lager/ Ruminations and observations about software, technology, and beer. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:34:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.markstaples.com/2008/11/19/bottling-the-full-malt-chilli-lager/comment-page-1/#comment-15146 Mark Staples » Blog Archive » Primed or Unprimed? Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:16:32 +0000 http://www.markstaples.com/?p=52#comment-15146 [...] I said I’d report back on an experiment I started last November.  For the Chilli Lager I made with a 3kg malt kit, I primed half the batch in the normal way, and didn’t prime the remaining bottles.  The theory is that when using a full malt kit, after primary fermentation and bottling, there should be enough residual dextrins left to be slowly enzymatically converted into simple sugars and then be digested by the remaining yeast.  I’ve had a request to report on the outcome of the experiment.  So here is a status report. [...] [...] I said I’d report back on an experiment I started last November.  For the Chilli Lager I made with a 3kg malt kit, I primed half the batch in the normal way, and didn’t prime the remaining bottles.  The theory is that when using a full malt kit, after primary fermentation and bottling, there should be enough residual dextrins left to be slowly enzymatically converted into simple sugars and then be digested by the remaining yeast.  I’ve had a request to report on the outcome of the experiment.  So here is a status report. [...]

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