American Brown Ale Carbonating

[Hulud]

So I have a brown ale that I want to bottle on Sunday. I plan on using brown sugar and from the calculator online (dont have the link right now cause I'm on my phone) it is saying to use between 3/8 and 1/2 cup to prime the 5 gallon batch.

I have used brown sugar before in an amber ale and I used 2/3 cup from the calculations. I didn't think the amber was really that much more carbonated than brown ales. Can someone just double check this for me?

The calculator says to have between 1.5-2.5 co2 I was just shooting for the middle of 2.

 

[unionrdr]

You didn't give a beer temp it requires,so I input 70F. It doesn't give brown sugar,so with Sucrose (table sugar),it gives the amount of 3oz. Priming sugar is always measured by weight,not volume. I used this calculator;http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html
It gives priming sugar amounts by weight.

 

[Hulud]

Yea sorry 70 degrees.

Yea I know it does weight then I converted it to volume using another site that gave the conversion for brown sugar.

3oz?

 

[unionrdr]

Yes 3oz on the nose. Just remember the ounces given for measuring cups is in liquid ounces only. A cup is 8 oz liquid,but dry about 4-4.5oz. Digital scales are about $20,analog no more than $6-$9. Do yourself a favor,scales are cheap,quick,& easy.

 

[Hulud]

Lol yea I'll just go 'splurge' and buy a scale.

I just don't know it's so expensive haha