Cane Sugar Priming Help - I'm very confused

[buffalojoe29]

no, but we are going to suspend your guy card.

Oh man c'mon. That guy card stuff is even worse

 

[jkendrick]

I made a 5 gallon batch of Vinnie's Pliny the Elder recipe. With all the dry hopping, there is quite a bit less than 5 gallon in the secondary. Do you think I should go for a half cup or 3/4 cup of corn sugar? I won't know exactly how much beer I have until I rack to the bottling bucket and I wanted to rack on top of the priming sugar solution.

 

[buffalojoe29]

God this feels good (first batch)

 

[WileECoyote]

Hello, I used the recommended 3/4 cup by volume (corn sugar) on 3 very different brews, all 5 gal batches, all 3 are very low carbed, this is after 5 weeks in the bottle at 70 deg.

My 4th batch I used 1 cup corn sugar (or 1oz per gal) and after 5 days its carbed up like any store bought beer and in the fridge now.

All 4 brews had different yeast, and all 4 were, 2 weeks in primary, 2 weeks in secondary. all are extract brews.

From now on I will be using 7/8 cup to 1 cup corn sugar for priming, or 1oz per gal of brew, depending on the brew.

3/4 cup, just is not getting the job done.

3/4 cup is right at 4oz, the 2 kits I brewed came with, 5oz right at 1 cup, it's my belief the kits have 5oz of priming sugar for a reason, and the instructions tell you to use the 5oz bag of priming sugar for your 5 gal batch.

Just thought I should post my results.

Hope this helps someone out.

Im sure Ill hear all about it, but thats ok too lol

Cheers

 

[jkendrick]

Thanks for that. My first two batches were kits as well with 5 oz of corn sugar. They carbed up nicely and definitely wouldn't say they were over-carbed. The first batch had it's issues but that was not related to carbonation, but that's a whole 'nother story. Still might go with 4 oz for this batch due to loss of volume in dry hopping, but likely won't go under that. Would love to hear more opinions, though.

 

[ncbrewer]

I suggest measuring the fermenter diameter and depth, and figuring the volume. Bottle bombs can be dangerous.

 

[unionrdr]

I use plastic FV's,& make sure they have volume measurments on them so I know what I've got. I even saved a plastic 1G juice jug I marked measurements on using a 2C measure to get the volumes accurate on the side of the jug. I use it to fill my BK as well. No more guessing that way. You can also use my jug method to mark carboys & better bottles. Knowledge is half the battle.