Hello all-
Today I bottled my Triforce Stout- a Double Chocolate Stout from Austin Homebrew. I added raspberries, extra chocolate, and vanilla in the carboy (hence triforce) and let it sit for several weeks. I have to say, wow! it tastes good! Very raspberryish (almost no chocolate, I'm surprised) and I expect that to fade out over time and hopefully the chocolate will pop up.
Despite my glee of brewing a delicious beer, I was in quite a difficult situation. I had no idea how much beer I'd be able to get out of my carboy given I had a bag full of 3.75 lbs of raspberries and all the trub at the bottom. I managed to fill 32 12oz bottles and 7 22oz bombers, which means I got probably ~4.2 gallons or so.
This made it hard to calculate how much priming sugar to add but I had already guessimated that I had ~4 gallons so I basically poured in 4/5 of the priming sugar package that came with my kit. I definitely will be praying I didn't add too much (or too little, my previous IPA was seriously undercarbed) sugar lol.
I am wondering if there is a easy way to calculate volume by measuring how much beer is in my bottling bucket. I tried to do this method with my measurements of 12" high with a 6" radius. This gave me ~1357 cubic feet of beer in my bottling bucket. However, when I converted this to gallons, I got 5.8 gallons which is waaaay off.
I would greatly appreciate any help how to calculate how much beer is in a carboy (or bottling bucket).
EDIT: cubic inches, not feet Q.Q
Today I bottled my Triforce Stout- a Double Chocolate Stout from Austin Homebrew. I added raspberries, extra chocolate, and vanilla in the carboy (hence triforce) and let it sit for several weeks. I have to say, wow! it tastes good! Very raspberryish (almost no chocolate, I'm surprised) and I expect that to fade out over time and hopefully the chocolate will pop up.
Despite my glee of brewing a delicious beer, I was in quite a difficult situation. I had no idea how much beer I'd be able to get out of my carboy given I had a bag full of 3.75 lbs of raspberries and all the trub at the bottom. I managed to fill 32 12oz bottles and 7 22oz bombers, which means I got probably ~4.2 gallons or so.
This made it hard to calculate how much priming sugar to add but I had already guessimated that I had ~4 gallons so I basically poured in 4/5 of the priming sugar package that came with my kit. I definitely will be praying I didn't add too much (or too little, my previous IPA was seriously undercarbed) sugar lol.
I am wondering if there is a easy way to calculate volume by measuring how much beer is in my bottling bucket. I tried to do this method with my measurements of 12" high with a 6" radius. This gave me ~1357 cubic feet of beer in my bottling bucket. However, when I converted this to gallons, I got 5.8 gallons which is waaaay off.
I would greatly appreciate any help how to calculate how much beer is in a carboy (or bottling bucket).
EDIT: cubic inches, not feet Q.Q