Belgian Tripel Keg/Bottle

[tlewisii]

I have a 5 gallon batch in the secondary that I am about to bottle/keg. I am going to bottle 6 16oz bottles and keg the rest. My questions is how much sugar to use. I have found formulas to decide how much sugar to add to the batch if I'm bottling or if I'm kegging, but none that have both. Am I just overthinking this step?

Thanks!

 

[Double_D]

If I'm understanding what you're typing, you've already found the calculator for how much sugar you need per bottle right? then all you need to do is divide your batch by the volume of your bottles (640oz/16=40 bottles) divide your sugar necessary to bottle by 40. Then use enough to prime 6 bottles. The calculation for keg priming is usually quite a bit lower but all you'd have to do is remove the equivalent volume of sugar for the 6 you bottled using the same method and prime your keg. Or, since it is a tripel and they're usually pretty effervescent you could just prime your keg like with the whole volume and not worry about it. 6 pints is only 15% of the total volume. It won't make that big of a difference.

 

[SaguaroMan]

Are you bottle capping the bottles? Those aren't rated to handle more than 3.0 parts of CO2 so beware of bottle bombs. If they're swing tips then you'll be fine.

Are you bottling/kegging in 2 stages? As in siphoning from the secondary directly into the bottles? If you are 96oz = .75 gallons so just calculate for that level of carbonation for the bottles and subtract the bottled volume from the amount that's being kegged to get the keg carbonation volume. Remember that you'll still leave ~.5 gallon in the fermenter when siphoning so it won't be exactly 5 gallons bottle/kegged.

 

[tlewisii]

Thanks. I'm using Swing Top bottles, which is why I'm only doing 6 (it's all I own in that style). I was planning on using a bottling bucket to mix the sugar, but never thought about doing it in 2 stages. My new plan will be to siphon out 100 oz for the bottles/add appropriate amount of sugar and then do the rest after for the keg.


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[k1ngl1ves]

You could just use tablets in the bottles, then force carb your keg...