How Much Corn Sugar?

[hophead81]

I made a belgian dubbel 3 weeks ago, that fermented at 73*, and abv ended up just over 9%! How much corn sugar should I use for bottle priming? Tastybrew.com bottle priming calculator said 3.6oz. Does this sound right?

 

[wyzazz]

Depends on how many bubbles you want, just don't carbonate to over 3.0vols of CO2 if you're using regular 12/22oz bottles because that's all they are rated for. How big was the batch?

I'd go with 2.5 or higher vols of CO2 for a belgian.

 

[hophead81]

It was a 5 gal batch and I will be using both 12 & 22oz bottles. Want a moderate carbonation.

 

[wyzazz]

I'd probably go with the 3.6oz then, that should be fine.

 

[jafo28]

Don't know if this will help, but i've used it for my first two brews and the've come out great.
http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html?12778718#tag

 

[hophead81]

Thanks jafo28. I used 2.2 for the CO2 and hbd calculator said to use 3.7 oz of corn sugar for bottle priming which was close to what I was thinking before.