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Dry hopping as a factor for CO2 in solution at bottling

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wingnutp

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Maybe my pea brain doesn't properly grasp the idea or amount of CO2 in solution prior to bottling, but why don't the bottling/priming calculators take into account whether you've dry hopped? In my limited experience, it seems that the hops provide nucleation points for a fair bit of CO2 to be released out the airlock/blowoff tube prior to bottling.
 
The amount of CO2 in suspension is usually around 1 volume when fermented in the 60s and not cold crashed. Atmospheric pressure will keep it in solution. There may be a little off gassing when hops are added but it's not a lot.

Notice that they don't have ' time in fermenter' or ' barometric pressure' fields.
 
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