Bottling a Weizenbock - How much sugar?

I am bottling a weizenbock tonight and I am unsure of the amount of priming sugar to add.

Per the style it says the volume of CO2 should be anywhere from 3.7 to 4.7.

So I am aiming in the middle at 4.2 and for my 5 gallon batch the calculators I've checked are saying 9.3 oz of cane sugar.

I checked two other sites and came up with similar amounts.

9.3 oz of sugar seems like way too much. Could that be right?

I would go more toward 5.25oz. I think the thing with the CO2 volumes listed for the style is that they are carbed up prior to bottling, so the pressure is different internally. I could be waaay off here so don't take this too seriously until someone else confirms or refutes it, but I would think having the pressure created inside the bottle is different than having the CO2 already forced into the liquid.

Again, this is merely a thought so I could be wrong, but I've used 5oz or a bit more for my hefe's, including a Weizenbock that came out amazing, and it's always been carbed up very well.


Rev.

What kind of bottles are you using? I wouldn't trust many bottles to hold 4+ volumes.