Amount of priming sugar for German Wheat - too much?

[Suicid]

G'day,

Personally I like sparkling very much
I'm currently have a weizen batch ready to bottle and want to make it fairly fizzy. I'm going to bottle into glass.

All the calculators says it could be 3.3 - 4.5 CO2 and gave me about 288g of Table Sugar ( Corn Sugar: 317 g, DME: 424 g) for 23l (6.07 US galons).
Which faar exceeds the average "safe to do not have it exploded" 8g per liter.

The question is it all ok with the calculators? In other words is it safe to come to the basement if I put 12 g per liter (1.6 oz/galon) of sugar while priming?

Thanks in advance!

 

[unionrdr]

They say glass pop tops can take some 3.0 Vco2. I primed my Bavarian Hefeweisen to 2.8 Vco2 (Volumes Co2) to stay below the bottle-bomb threshold.

 

[microbusbrewery]

4.5 volumes seems a bit high to me. I'd probably shoot for 3.0 - 3.3. I've done saisons up to 4 volumes in regular 12oz bottles without any issues but I am careful to use thicker bottles...even with regular bottles (not Belgian bottles), some are thicker than others.

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

4.5 volumes seems a bit high to me. I'd probably shoot for 3.0 - 3.3. I've done saisons up to 4 volumes in regular 12oz bottles without any issues but I am careful to use thicker bottles...even with regular bottles (not Belgian bottles), some are thicker than others.

Given similar 12oz bottles, it may be wise to WEIGH the bottles and pick out the heavier ones. This should logically ensure a thicker glass.

MC

 

[Suicid]

Thanks, guys!
Thicker bottles is a great idea!

BTW never had any bottles exploded. Is it really possible if bottles has no cracks? I was under the impression that a cap (speaking about crown caps) must go first.

 

[Brettomomyces]

Some 12oz beer bottles are really really thin, most BMC bottles are. You'd be able to tell pretty easily though. I've never had any explode on me (had a growler do it once...), but I wouldn't want to try a higher pressure carb in any of the skinny guys.

 

[microbusbrewery]

Given similar 12oz bottles, it may be wise to WEIGH the bottles and pick out the heavier ones. This should logically ensure a thicker glass.



MC

Yep, that's exactly what I did. It's kind of surprising how much difference there can be. I have a ton of New Belgium bottles and they seemed to weigh the least.