I'm preparing to bottle my First Brew (A Holiday Ale) on Saturday 1/31 and would like to be prepared with the correct amount of priming sugar I need for this batch. The recipe called for 5.5 gallons of water to make a 5 gallon batch and it came with 5oz of priming sugar. However, I'm not sure how much water/wort was lost to grains, hops and boil off. I probably lost around 1/4 a gallon to blow off and another 1/5 - 1/4 gallon dumping some wort out to create some room at the head of the carboy.
Without knowing the exact amount of beer, how much priming sugar should I use? What's the typical amount per gallon?
Here's a picture of the 5 Gallon carboy - maybe someone just knows how much this is... I'm planning to mark my carboy in the future.
Without knowing the exact amount of beer, how much priming sugar should I use? What's the typical amount per gallon?
Here's a picture of the 5 Gallon carboy - maybe someone just knows how much this is... I'm planning to mark my carboy in the future.