Honey Beer & Carbonation

[teknovision]

Hi all,

My first post please be gentle.. :fro:

I am brewing 20 litres of honey beer with 1kg honey at boil and 1kg honey pasteurised at kraken. Now beer is ready for bottling but as i have so much honey, do i need to take this into consideration when priming or just do as calculator suggests?

I use the following calculator:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/priming-sugar-calculator/

Any help is muchly appreciated!

P

 

[pricelessbrewing]

What's the fg? By at kraken do you mean it also fermented out or did you rack onto it as a secondary?

 

[teknovision]

Thanks for the reply!

The gravity is 1.021 now. By at the kraken, I mean at the peak of fermentation, the wort remained in same tank since.

 

[pricelessbrewing]

Priming sugar is typically about 0.003 gravity, so that would put your fg at 1.018 which is fairly high but not impossible. I wouldn't bottle yet.
What's the expected fg? Recipe?

 

[Einherjar]

By at the kraken, I mean at the peak of fermentation, the wort remained in same tank since.

I think you might mean "high kraeusen". Although kraken makes for a much cooler term. I feel it should be rendered in all caps.

Add the dry hops after the KRAKEN falls!

 

[pricelessbrewing]

I think you might mean "high kraeusen". Although kraken makes for a much cooler term. I feel it should be rendered in all caps.

Add the dry hops after the KRAKEN falls!

I added the honey when the KRAKEN surfaced!

 

[rodwha]

I've waited until the KRAKEN has fallen before I added my additional honey (1 week).

 

[rodwha]

Can you give a recipe?

 

[teknovision]

Haha, ooops, I think we just found it's name: Kraken.

The recipe is actually based on the White House Honey Ale recipe:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe

'Slightly' tailored after two trials already, according to Beersmith, FG should be 1.001 (!?). My intention was to bottle now and let it flourish for a month or so.

http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/282290/the-kraken-house-honey

The beer will be what it will be, just worried that I put too much sugar and turn bottles into bombs. All the calculators I have seen so far don't take the recipe into account but more beer style.

 

[rodwha]

FG of 1.001?!?! That is very low! My lowest has been 1.006 and was a good bit bellow the figured FG.

I've noticed this each time I've used honey. The calculator obviously isn't accurate when it's figured in. I'm ok with that.

Once your beer has been fermented it shouldn't figure in to the carbonation. From there it's only on the amount of priming sugar.