Advice on priming a keg for Coopers real ale

[Coopers]

Currently got a Coopers real ale on the go and i have bought a keg (hambleton bard) instead of bottles. How much sugar should be added to the keg and should i dissolve in a little water first? Also what is the best sugar to use for priming? For fermentation i used 500g lght spraymalt ang 500g normal sugar, i would usually do 1kg malt but they ran out!

Also for my next kit i am doing a Coopers lager, could i add 500g dark spraymalt and 500g light malt................before you ask, they don't do a medium

[Orkney_Rob]

I would probably go for 2x light for the lager, unless you want to change the colour that is! Could be wrong though!

I primed my barrels with 80ish grammes of raw cane sugar (light goldenish and powdery) and that seems to have done a cracking job! May try either spraymalt or honey or something next time, just to see what happens

[oblivious]

You can't go too far wrong going with 80g of cane sugar/dextrose/glucose/spray malt.

I second that

[Coopers]

Yeah i thought it'd change the colour if i used the dark spraymalt on the lager, so what if i prime the real ale keg with 80g of the dark spraymalt then buy another lightmalt when they are back in stock for the lager?

Cheers for the advice

[Coopers]

The effect 80g will have on the beer will be minimal. There's nothing wrong with using a dark malt in lager, you can even get dark lagers. Lager is more about the yeast and the way it is fermented and matured.

Not sure what you meant by this bit?

[Coopers]

Yeah i thought it'd change the colour if i used the dark spraymalt on the lager, so what if i prime the real ale keg with 80g of the dark spraymalt then buy another lightmalt when they are back in stock for the lager?

Cheers for the advice

The effect 80g will have on the beer will be minimal.=It wont alter it dramatically

There's nothing wrong with using a dark malt in lager, you can even get dark lagers. = but if it did it wouldn't matter.

Lager is more about the yeast and the way it is fermented and matured. = it's not the colour that determines whether or not a beer is a lager.

It was only the part that i put in bold that i didn't understand

I'm not sure if you understand what i mean, i bought 2 kits one which is fermenting now (real ale) which is 500g light malt and 500g sugar. The other kit is a lager and i have 500g light spraymalt and 500g dark spraymalt as they didn't have any more light in stock so i took one of each. I am thinking of using 80g of the dark spraymalt to put into my pressured keg for 2nd fermentation of the real ale but from what i gather your saying it won't alter it dramatically

I need a lie down

[Orkney_Rob]

I think what he means is that such a small quantity of dark spray malt is going to make bugger all real difference to either colour of flavour of the final brew

I quite like the idea of making a dark lager now... really enjoyed a couple (of kegs) of similar in Germany a few years back - I had forgotten about them completely for some reason... probably quantity related