Northern Brewer priming sugar calculator

[the-adjunct-hippie]

https://www.northernbrewer.com/pages/priming-sugar-calculator

So generally I've found I need to reduce the calculation of priming sugar solution by 10-15% to prevent gushers. I brewed a Quad for the first time and decided to follow the instructions and only decrease by 5%. Now all of my caps' nipples are up and I've got GUSHERS!

Anybody else have this problem with their algorithm?

 

[doug293cz]

Have you by any chance been using the corn sugar/dextrose amounts but actually using sucrose (table sugar)? Corn sugar/dextrose is actually glucose mono-hydrate so more of it is required than sucrose which is not a hydrate, thus you need to use less sucrose than corn sugar/dextrose.

Brew on

 

[ncbrewer]

Input your estimated beer volume going into the bottling bucket for the calculations - not the amount in the fermenter.

 

[Pkrd]

If you increase the sugar, whatever sugar, by 10-15% you’re going to increase the CO2 volume by the same %. So maybe you’re going from 2.4 to 2.7. That shouldn’t be wildly different and not a gusher.

 

[Silver_Is_Money]

I've generally found the NB calculator to be conservative vs. BF, and I prefer the more agressive BF calculator based upon the carbonation results I've been getting.

 

[JimRausch]

I have never had problems with the NB calculator, except that it's now hard to find on their website
I'd check for potential infection sources in your siphon, bottling wand, and bottling bucket. Take them apart and clean the chit out of them, and/or buy new.

 

[catdaddy66]

I solved my "gusher" issues when I switched from using the volume recommendation (in cups) to the weight (grams/ounces), as suggested by some experienced brewers on HBT.