How much priming sugar

My brewing over the weekend yielded about 4 gallons after evaporation and am curious how much priming sugar I should use for this amount.

6/10 of a cup. Basically just a little over a cup, thats if you follow the 3/4cup Dextrose per 5 gal batch

Arneba28 said:

6/10 of a cup. Basically just a little over 1/2 a cup, thats if you follow the 3/4cup Dextrose per 5 gal batch

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Fixed that for you.

You can also weigh it if you have a good scale. 1 oz per gallon, so you'd need 4 oz.

ooh thanks lol. I need to proofread my posts. That could of been a big bottle bomb

Arneba28 said:

ooh thanks lol. I need to proofread my posts. That could of been a big bottle bomb

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DOH! That would make for a bit of a mess....

You can't go wrong with a Calculator!

BigKahuna said:

Fixed that for you.

You can also weigh it if you have a good scale. 1 oz per gallon, so you'd need 4 oz.

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Do they give out 4 oz or 5 oz with a kit?

I always thought it was 4 so...dividing 5 gals by 4 you get .8 oz per gallon.

I've only done one kit, but I think I got 6 oz with that. I remember thinking it was a little too much.

I wouldn't trust the kits anyway, I trust John Palmer

homebrewer_99 said:

Do they give out 4 oz or 5 oz with a kit?

I always thought it was 4 so...dividing 5 gals by 4 you get .8 oz per gallon.

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The Brewers best kits come with 5 oz, and it nicely fills 3/4 cup. Can't speak for anything else.

Brutus Brewer said:

My brewing over the weekend yielded about 4 gallons after evaporation and am curious how much priming sugar I should use for this amount.

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Couldn't you just add a gallon of water to make it 5?

MgMt_Home_Brew said:

Couldn't you just add a gallon of water to make it 5?

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I wasn't sure if I should have topped it off or not, so I left it.

I use http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html because each style has different suggestions.

Also, the guy who wrote the calculator is nice and friendly. The code is open source(ish) so I have a personal copy running at home incase his site goes down.

Brutus Brewer said:

I wasn't sure if I should have topped it off or not, so I left it.

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Did you take a OG reading? That will tell you if you needed to top it off or not.

Yes, I think the OG was 1.055

The OG was 1.055... What was the FG?

It's still in the fermentor

Oh, got it...

Well, 1.055 is a pretty standard OG. So it is probably good that you did not top it off. it would have been pretty water-y.

If need be, you can always water it down after fermentation. But I wouldnt.