Priming with Belgian Candi Sugar

I have a (Belgian) Scotch Ale in secondary and plan on bottling this coming weekend. I picked up some dark Belgian candi sugar for priming. The guy at the LHBS recommend 5 oz for my 5 gallon batch. After some research I found a helpful chart on John Palmers website. If I am reading the chart correctly it says to use 2-3 oz of cane sugar (I am assuming this has the same properties as candi sugar) for a Belgian style ale.

I was wondering if anyone has any experience bottling with candi sugar and if you would throw some knowledge my way. I would hate to end up with bombs or duds in the fridge.

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html

This is a pretty good place to start. I'm not sure if it has candi sugar on there or not, but i think it would be used like cane sugar.

Cool. Thanks. That's about what Palmer suggests but it seems a little more accurate. I think I would be sorry if I use 5 oz.

I could very easily see carbonating to three volumes of CO2 which would need five ounces of sugar for five gallons. That would not be unusual for a strong Belgian ale.

Are you going for more of a tripel or BDSA level of carbonation or a more gentle scotch ale level?

ReverseApacheMaster said:

I could very easily see carbonating to three volumes of CO2 which would need five ounces of sugar for five gallons. That would not be unusual for a strong Belgian ale.

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+1. also, candi sugar has a lower ppg than cane sugar, so you'd need more

Going for something around double to triple. Belgian strong. I am hoping to weigh in around 8%.

Then I would do one ounce to one gallon. Maybe slightly more to account for the lower ppg of candi sugar due to the unfermentables.

Northern brewers priming calculator has Belgian candi syrup as one of the priming options. 10 gallons was almost a 1 lb pouch for my dubbel. (356 grams)

Zigs6 said:

Northern brewers priming calculator has Belgian candi syrup as one of the priming options. 10 gallons was almost a 1 lb pouch for my dubbel. (356 grams)

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356 grams is not 1 pound- it's 12 1/2 ounces. If you used a whole pound, I'd be cautious with the amount of carbonation.

Correct, my usage of "almost" was vague. I used enough to get me to 3 volumes as going more than that was dangerous. I weighed it out and still had some left in the pouch. I've done 3.2 in regular bottles before and they didn't break but it still made me nervous.