Irish Red Ale: how much priming sugar?

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Nuno Santos

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Dear all,

I am going to bottle tomorrow an Irish Red Ale that I have just brewed. For the first time, I am going to use priming sugar (instead of carbonation drops). I am planing to use table sugar.

My question is: how much sugar should I add? Or in other words, how many CO2 volumes do I want?

In the book from which I took the recipe (Home Brew Beer, Greg Hughes), it says that for this style of beer I should go for a CO2 of 1.5 (meaning ~2.5 g of sugar/litre). But this sounds too low for me. I was thinking about 2.0 to 2.5 of CO2. Any idea about what is the best for this beer style?

Thank you!
Nuno
 
For an Irish Red, I would probably shoot for about 2.2-2.3 volumes.

1.5 volumes is basically a cask ale level, which is fine, if that's the effect you want.
 
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