For a five gallon batch, 3/4 cup of corn sugar is used to prime the beer for bottle conditioning. Add the sugar to a small sauce pan with two cups of water. Boil the sugar for 15 minutes to disolve and sterilize. The priming sugar is added during the bottling process because it will supply the yeast with more sugar to metabolize while the yeast lives in the bottle. The result is carbonated beer!
The sugar must be a small measured quantity because too much sugar could over-carbonate the beer and cause exploding bottles.
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