Priming big bottles

[callback79]

Hi,

I know the ratio of sugar per ml of beer is not the same when bottling regular bottles (330-400ml) and 5 gal batch in keg. I heard we should use something like half the sugar per ml of beer when kegging.

I have some 1.5 litre Grolsch bottles, I'd like to know if I have to use the regular priming calculations for bottling when using this kind of bottles or something between regular bottling and kegging calculations due the size of the bottles.

Thanks.

 

[Revvy]

If you bulk prime, you'll see that the same amount of sugar is used regardless of the size of the bottle.

 

[callback79]

Just to be sure I'm understanding it right, does it means that the idea of "use half the amount of sugar if you keg it" is just wrong ?

So Bulk Priming in a bottling bucket and then bottling a 5 gal batch OR priming a 5 gal keg should use the same amount of sugar ? Everything I've read so far was a different story but I've no experience on this.

Thanks.

 

[Revvy]

Just to be sure I'm understanding it right, does it means that the idea of "use half the amount of sugar if you keg it" is just wrong ?

So Bulk Priming in a bottling bucket and then bottling a 5 gal batch OR priming a 5 gal keg should use the same amount of sugar ? Everything I've read so far was a different story but I've no experience on this.

Thanks.

Kegging and bottling are two different things. You need less sugar in a keg, because you're still pushing the beer with co2.

It has nothing to do with what the requirements for bottling are.

 

[GrogNerd]

BOTTLING: It's the size of the BATCH, not the size of the bottles