Do I always need to add corn sugar before bottling?

[ramgeva]

Hi All
I'm following this Hoegaarden clone recepie I found on the web:


Description:
Very easy drinking wit.
Not far from the magic Hoegaarden.
Use corriander and orange peel for personal taste.
20L batch.



Ingredients:
• 2.5kg Pale Wheat
• 2kg Pils
• 500g Raw wheat
• 350g Munich I
• 200g Carapils
• 200g Torr wheat
• Hallatuer Mittlefreuh 30g - 60 min
• Styrian Goldings 15g - 45 min
• Hallatuer Mittlefreuh 15g - 15min
• 40g Corriander and 30g Orange peel at 15min.
• Yeast nutrient - 5 min.
• Wyeast 3944 Bel Wit.



OG: 1052 FG: 1011
Primary Ferment: 14 days




Procedure:

Mashed at 65deg for 90 mins.
Boiled 60 min.
Koppafloc added 5 mins before flame out.

It doesn't say if I need to add it before bottling, is it a must always? how do I calculate the amount? what should i use corn sugar or candy sugar?
10x a lot for you're help

 

[RM-MN]

Your beer should be completely fermented out before you bottle. That means that there is no sugar left that the yeast can eat and that eating sugar is what leads to the production of carbon dioxide gas which is what gives beer the "fizz". No sugar added at bottling leads to beer that is completely flat.

For the carbonation, either sugar will work but the simpler the sugar the easier it is for the yeast to consume so most of us use corn sugar.

 

[ramgeva]

Your beer should be completely fermented out before you bottle. That means that there is no sugar left that the yeast can eat and that eating sugar is what leads to the production of carbon dioxide gas which is what gives beer the "fizz". No sugar added at bottling leads to beer that is completely flat.

For the carbonation, either sugar will work but the simpler the sugar the easier it is for the yeast to consume so most of us use corn sugar.

Thank you very much.
Do you have any good calculator to know how much I need ?
10x

 

[AZBeerNut]

Thank you very much.
Do you have any good calculator to know how much I need ?
10x

http://tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html

 

[ramgeva]

http://tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html

10x Man