Jordanmilo
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Tomorrow I'll be bottling my first batch: English Best Bitter, OG 1.042, FG 1.012. I'd like to prime using Austin Homebrew's Amber Dried Malt Extract.
Various online calculators tell me that for the style-appropriate carbonation I only need to prime with 1.3 ounces of DME.
Based on my pre-brewing research (Joy of Homebrewing, et al), that seems like a miniscule amount of priming sugar. Papazian recommends 1.25 cups per 5 gallons (my batch came to more like 4.5 gallons because I left quite a bit in the primary fermenter when I racked to secondary).
I'm afraid that small amount of DME isn't going to produce enough carbonation, if any at all.
Various online calculators tell me that for the style-appropriate carbonation I only need to prime with 1.3 ounces of DME.
Based on my pre-brewing research (Joy of Homebrewing, et al), that seems like a miniscule amount of priming sugar. Papazian recommends 1.25 cups per 5 gallons (my batch came to more like 4.5 gallons because I left quite a bit in the primary fermenter when I racked to secondary).
I'm afraid that small amount of DME isn't going to produce enough carbonation, if any at all.