A question on carbing a dry tripel.

[Daffypuck]

I took another stab at creating a tripel and ended up with less than desirable results. My inexperience in brewing led me to adding a god awful amou t of candy sugar to help sweeten up and add a little more ABV to my batch. I ended up with a 13% extremely dry beer. Live and learn. So, I added a vanilla bean to secondary and let it sit for 5 months. It has mellowed out quite a bit and will be drinkable. But, it doesn't have much body to it. I've pulled some samples and carbed them to see how it would be. With a lot of carbonation, it actually is t too bad. My question is this, how many volumes of CO2 would y'all suggest to get it really bubbly? I was thinking in the range of 3.2-3.5. Do y'all think that's too much?

 

[duboman]

If you don't mind that high a level of carbonation then go for it if it makes the beer taste better. At those volumes I am assuming you are kegging it. If you plan on bottling you must use belgian style bottles with corks and wire cages to prevent bottle bombs or caps blowing off!

 

[Daffypuck]

Yeh, I'm kegging. I know typical tripel styles are around 2.4-3.0. I'm just wondering how much of a difference there is between 3 and 3.5. I've had some really carbed triples and then some that weren't as much. Are there any examples of bottled beer that are in the 3-3.5 range?