scblack
Leucocholic
Understood, thanks for the explanation.johnny said:Yeah absolutely.
Liquid CO2 can only turn into a gas when it can latch onto something. Hence the sandblasting in the bottom of schooner glasses, have a look next time you're in the pub. So when you put in a carbo drop there is a little tiny fizz but SFA. When you pour in Dextrose you get a massive fizz being that there are thousands of little rough edged particles for the liquid CO2 to bind onto.
Also, dextrose doesn't affect the flavour at all, I like adding a touch of sucrose to add a bit of body. Also, dextrose won't hold a head or carbonation very long, the beer tends to go flat a lot quicker. I nearly lost my Export Pilsner to this.
I'm using a mix of maltedextrin, sucrose and dextrose this time. All in differing mixes, some singular. We'll see how I go. Oh yes, I WILL definately be using bulk priming and scblack, you're more than welcome to borrow my secondary fermenter that I use for the priming if you want.
Thanks for the offer of the fermenter, shall see how I go, I may buy one this weekend - last weekend they had no piping left, so I didn't bother.