Only added half the priming sugar

[HopDude]

Was bottling over the weekend and tried something I read about adding your priming sugar to the bucket both before racking and halfway through....

Of course, I forgot the halfway through part and didn't realize till all bottles were capped and I was cleaning up.

Will it still carb up if given a few extra weeks? Any other ideas?

 

[Clann]

what was the amount of sugar you used in all, 4-5 oz?
the beer will still try to carb but it will probabily be considerably less than you want.

 

[HopDude]

4oz in all. Just eye-balled the "half" added at the beginning though. So who knows how much I really added.

 

[estoppel]

I'd keep them in a +70 degree room and maybe shake them in a week or so to try to get the yeast back into suspension to finish whatever sugar they can. Your beer will probably end up a little under carbed, but I often only carbed with 4 oz of sugar because I would prefer my beers to be a little under-carbed as opposed to being over-carbed.

 

[Revvy]

You're beer will be carbed a lot lower than you planned.

 

[profallout]

What was the theory behind the 2 stage addition of priming sugar? I'm guessing so you don't have to stir. I'm open to new ideas but simply racking on top of 100% of the sugar has always worked for me.

I have never heard someone suggest to shake the beer post bottling as estoppel was saying. I would be hesitant to do it but desperate times call for desperate measures. Can anyone else weigh in on that?

 

[marsbike]

The only time I had uneven carbonation was with the two step priming addition. I just lay my tubing in the hot priming solution and let it swirl naturally.