Thanks Derek, I think I'll do all of the above on my next batch, just to be safe. Making the move to kegging is a dream of mine, but as I'm currently living in Dubai, I can't just pop down to the local 'keg shop'! Will just have to make do for now.
Thanks Ed! Yeah, that's more or less what I did, except I let the sugar-water solution cool down to room temperature before racking onto it. You reckon that doing it while it's still boiling hot should mix it in better? Cheers!
A month or so back, I racked a cold crashed brew onto dissolved priming sugar in my bottling bucket, then proceeded to bottle. 3 weeks or so later... Booom! A chunk of the sugar solution must have sat on the bottom of the bottling bucket and over-primed the last few bottles as I tilted it. I...
My Step father found a crate in the back of his garage from a batch he'd brewed (in an old school wringer washing machine BTW) 12 years earlier. He reckons it was wonderful!