Carbonating first oatmeal stout

[Cro Magnon]

It's just about ready to bottle my first oatmeal stout. I'm planning to bottle in PET bottles this time. Reason being last time I bottled an extract in both swing tops and PET and the ones in the swing tops hardly carbonated while the ones in the PET carbonated really well so I'm guessing the seals on the swing tops are poor quality. So how much should I carbonate? I know stouts are not supposed to be heavily carbonated but I think I like it quite heavily carbonated.....any ideas? It's a 7 litre batch. Can I do about 70gms of sugar?

 

[jdauria]

Swing top bottles don't hold a seal very well with carbonated beers. Stouts should be 1.7-2.3V. As for how much sugar, it depends on the type and how cold your beer was stored at...check out this priming calculator...https://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/ Looks like 70 grams would be way to much assuming the beer is at room temp.

 

[Cro Magnon]

Swing top bottles don't hold a seal very well with carbonated beers. Stouts should be 1.7-2.3V. As for how much sugar, it depends on the type and how cold your beer was stored at...check out this priming calculator...https://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/ Looks like 70 grams would be way to much assuming the beer is at room temp.

Thanks a lot for the link and the suggestions! Think I'll go with the higher end of that then.

 

[jdauria]

Thanks a lot for the link and the suggestions! Think I'll go with the higher end of that then.

You're welcome! Good luck!