Priming with honey?

[dedken]

Morning all,

If I wanted to (as Chris says) ruin my perfectly good beer could I prime with honey? I was thinking that priming with the bees stuff would impart more of a honey flavour than adding it as a fermentable to the wort. Am I correct in this assumption? What would be the equivalent in honey of 1/3 level teaspoon of sugar?

Since I've already hit this brew with additional hops perhaps I've experimented far enough, so is it advisable to go down this course at all? Any suggestions?

Ta muchly

[trucker5774]

You may get a tiny hint of honey flavour, but very little. I would stick with white table sugar for priming.

[At. Ailbhe's Brewery]

Aren't there enzymes in honey that can attack the beer, and spoil it?

[potatoes]

Morning all,

If I wanted to (as Chris says) ruin my perfectly good beer could I prime with honey? I was thinking that priming with the bees stuff would impart more of a honey flavour than adding it as a fermentable to the wort. Am I correct in this assumption? What would be the equivalent in honey of 1/3 level teaspoon of sugar?

Since I've already hit this brew with additional hops perhaps I've experimented far enough, so is it advisable to go down this course at all? Any suggestions?

Ta muchly

Not sure how you prime but if you try priming it by adding the honey or sugar to bottle (rather than the brew) then cant you try both? Then give us feed back as to whether or not it makes a difference. My hunch is that the amount of sugar is very small so it wont change the flavour dramatically.... but I am by no means an expert.

potatoes

[mickhew]

Personally I wouldn't bother, almost everyone agrees that normal sugar is fine to use for priming, it's at the fermenting stage, where changing fermentables will make a difference. That said, it's your brew, you can do what you wan't with it. I take the advice of the more experienced brewers though.