carbonating keg with priming sugar

Priming a keg with priming sugar or dextrose is perfectly ok. There are several reasons why people carb. with sugar instead of using Co2, weather is from  not having proper equipment, saving money or just personal preference. My first batches were all kegged using priming sugar and this are the steps taken.

1. Sanitation Once again one of the most important steps in brewing or kegging is sanitation. I can't stress enough the importance of properly cleaning your keg. You will need to disassemble your keg.
 Make sure theres no air/ pressure in keg by purging it.
 Remove your gas in and liquid out valve. Place them in sanitation  solution (liquid valve will have a long tube and air will have a short tube.
  Sanitize the inside of the keg, If using a non rinse solution like starsan there's no need to worry about the bubbles or left over solution in keg.
   Once sanitized put keg back together making sure you but all parts where they originally went. Make sure all O-ring were put in there proper place and lubed using food grade gel.

 2. Priming sugar. Boil about a cup of water. Once boiled, remove the water from the heat. add 1/2 cup of priming sugar. When kegging you actually require less sugar than you will bottling. If you add the standard 3/4 cup as in bottling, you will end up with an over carbonated beer.
  Add wort to bottom of empty keg. So when you add the beer it will mix properly

3. Transfer beer,  Transfer beer to keg making sure you don't aerate the beer.  Your hose transferring the beer should be completely submersed and should not be splashing any beer around. The beer should be just under the small tube. If the keg is over filled and goes past the gas in tube it will shoot out when you connect your gas line. This can potentially damage your regulator.

4. Enjoy. The process is similar to carbonating with co2. however you will need to let the beer carbonate for approximately 2 weeks and most importantly you do not purge the keg once carbonation has started. You will release the co2 and you will wind up with flat beer.