First taste, first ever brewed beer...

[deeve007]

I'm spotting the reason my batch was under carbonated...

I used this calculator: https://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/
...which just trying again now, gives me around half the amount of sugar my recipe is telling me to add.

Though checking a couple of others they're giving me around the same result...

Example:
10L batch (~2.65 gln)
Temp: 65F
CO2: 2

Calculator gives me total of 40g
My recipe tells me 7g per litre, which would be 70g

Big difference, am a little confused... but the amount I added last time using the calculator was nowhere near enough.

 

[balrog]

Couple things. I just ran those numbers and see 48g called for (corn sugar, dextrose, not table sugar, so it depends on what you use)

Secondly, no matter what you siphon, no matter how you try, bottle conditioned beer will ALWAYS have sediment. After all, you are asking suspended yeasties in the bottle to procreate and consume the priming sugar and once that's done, then they flocculate. Always gonna happen in bottle conditioned beer.

 

[deeve007]

Yeah those are the numbers I used last time when it was nowhere close to being enough... whereas my recipe called for 7g per litre, which is a lot more...

 

[ncbrewer]

I see you used 2 volumes of CO2. I just carb'd that low once, and it seemed almost flat. That might be the problem - you just don't like the low carb level that's recommended for some styles. I carb most of mine to about 2.65 volumes and don't worry about not being to style guidelines.

Also, cooler temperatures will make it carb slower. 70F is generally considered a good temperature - upper 70's seems to be ok. When I used to carb at 65F during the winter, it took about five weeks to carb up.

As far as the calculators, I trust that they are pretty close. I don't recommend ignoring the calculator and using more sugar. Bottle bombs are dangerous.

 

[deeve007]

I carb most of mine to about 2.65 volumes and don't worry about not being to style guidelines.

If I did that then the calculator result is close to the recipe recommendations.
So I might ignore the different style guidelines and try that, at least starting out...

 

[bracconiere]

i say it all the time...but admit to yourself, you LOVE being your own private drug lord, and keg....

 

[deeve007]

Damn right... I'm loving this, even though making understandable errors as a newbie brewer, I'm enjoying discussing the mistakes and how to fix as much as the brewing itself...