I'm planning on bottling my first GF batch this weekend, and because the FG of this batch is low, I've decided I should carb it with some sorghum extract rather than simply sugar.
So, I've done some looking, and I've found some calculators that tell me how much DME to use, and I've seen some posts saying that because DME is denser than LME, that 1.2 times as much LME should be used as DME (although this wasn't about priming specifically).
So, I was wondering if there's a simple rule that I should use for calculating this? Would it be easiest to say that the Sorghum Extract is xx% fermentable, so calculate for corn sugar and then divide by xx%? (So, for example, if my Sorghum is 70% fermentable, and a calculator says to use 6 oz of corn sugar to hit my target carbonation, then I should use 8.6 oz of sorghum).
I had originally planned to just treat the sorghum like any other LME, but I've seen several online calculators that have priming rates for different types of DME, and they're showing a significant difference between them.
Has anyone else used sorghum extract to prime?
So, I've done some looking, and I've found some calculators that tell me how much DME to use, and I've seen some posts saying that because DME is denser than LME, that 1.2 times as much LME should be used as DME (although this wasn't about priming specifically).
So, I was wondering if there's a simple rule that I should use for calculating this? Would it be easiest to say that the Sorghum Extract is xx% fermentable, so calculate for corn sugar and then divide by xx%? (So, for example, if my Sorghum is 70% fermentable, and a calculator says to use 6 oz of corn sugar to hit my target carbonation, then I should use 8.6 oz of sorghum).
I had originally planned to just treat the sorghum like any other LME, but I've seen several online calculators that have priming rates for different types of DME, and they're showing a significant difference between them.
Has anyone else used sorghum extract to prime?