less corn sugar for 22oz bottles?

[HoppyDaze]

Do I use less priming sugar when bottling with 22oz bottles?

 

[neovox]

As opposed to 12oz bottles? I don't.

 

[Brewdouche-RuBrew]

Are you adding it to a bottling bucket?

---if so no, you use the same amount

Are you dosing each bottle?

---if so you should use twice as much per bottle, but really you should use a bottling bucket.

 

[HoppyDaze]

thanks...I was thinking along the lines of less sugar when you prime a whole keg. 22oz being almost twice the amount of 12oz bottles. Seems like a minor adjustment would be appropriate

 

[Brewdouche-RuBrew]

no its like a pound of feathers & a pound of lead, if your total batch is the same size, the total suger is the same.

 

[HoppyDaze]

no its like a pound of feathers & a pound of lead, if your total batch is the same size, the total suger is the same.

thats what I was thinking, but why do you only add 1/3 cup when priming a keg as opposed to 3/4 cup for bottles?

 

[Brewdouche-RuBrew]

I dont know. I never heard that. Where did you hear it? I could guess it may have something to do with total headspace, but that doesn't seem right. Mostly because the suger equates to an average 2.5+ volumes of co2 disolved in the liquid.

So again I ask. Where did you hear it? I could be wrong and about to lean something.

 

[HoppyDaze]

I dont know. I never heard that. Where did you hear it? I could guess it may have something to do with total headspace, but that doesn't seem right. Mostly because the suger equates to an average 2.5+ volumes of co2 disolved in the liquid.

So again I ask. Where did you hear it? I could be wrong and about to lean something.

On these boards a million times...

 

[dotnetdotcom]

Everything you need to know about priming: A Primer on Priming

 

[Yooper]

For kegging, you do reduce the priming sugar by about 1/2. It has to do with the relatively small amount of headspace for 5 gallons of beer. That would be correct.

But for 22 ouncers, it's fine to just fill them along with the 12 ouncers. The headspace in a 22 ounce bottle is the same for 12 ounce bottles, and there is more beer of course, but it's really negligible. You shouldn't have any carbonation problems with doing a mix of 12 ouncers, 16 ounces, and 22 ounces. I've done it lots of times.

 

[bdnoona]

If you're filling a variety of bottle sizes, I'd use the normal amount. However, my RIS was over carb'd because I used the normally recommend amount of priming sugar and bottled in all 22oz bottles. The next imperial I bottled in 22oz bottles was a barley wine, for which I reduced the sugar amount by 1/4 - 1/3 and it was much more appropriately carbed.

I don't know if this is universally the case, but in my limited experience using the amount of sugar recommended for 12oz bottles, when filling 22oz bottles results in over carbonation. That said, the only negative side effect is good head.