priming Question

[Garvinator 70]

I want to bottle in 40 oz. bottles and add priming sugar to each bottle ,is 1 teaspoon enough for a 40 oz. bottle?

 

[Jag75]

You need to check out a calculator for co2 volume and temp to figure out how much. Then divide the amount by how many bottles. That should give you the amount needed for each bottle. Unless theres an easier way that I dont know about.

 

[bucketnative]

Northern Brewer's priming sugar calculator is the one that I rely upon: https://www.northernbrewer.com/pages/priming-sugar-calculator

 

[odie]

I typically use 1 tsp per 12oz bottle. but I've never tried calculating the CO2 volume either. it was just quick & easy and seemed to workout ok.

trying to hit a specific volume of CO2 I think it would be easier to calculate for the entire batch volume and thoroughly mix it all in a bottling bucket. I think trying to measure each bottle out individually would give you too much variation for that small of individual measures...unless you use a tiny digital scale every time.

 

[Silver_Is_Money]

I typically use 1 tsp per 12oz bottle....

That's on the order of twice what a calculator is likely to have you add.

 

[bucketnative]

That's on the order of twice what a calculator is likely to have you add.

I know a lot of people use the one Domino sugar cube per 12 oz bottle for priming. The sugar cube is 1/2 tsp, or about 2.3 g. So, I am not sure how @odie isn't over-carbing by quite a bit with 1 tsp, 4.2 g. Unless his sugar is particularly large-grained, which would make for a less dense tsp.

 

[odie]

like I said, it was quick and easy. I just use table sugar. I do note that I must decant carefully to get a decent pour... guess that would explain things...lol

I always learn something here

 

[dmtaylor]

You'll need approximately 1.67 tsp per 40-oz bottle.

 

[Garvinator 70]

You'll need approximately 1.67 tsp per 40-oz bottle.

Dang I used 1 teaspoon guess I should have used 1 1/2

 

[dmtaylor]

Yeah it will be pretty flat. Actually, even 1.75 to 2 tsp per bottle would not have been wrong.

 

[Garvinator 70]

Yeah it will be pretty flat. Actually, even 1.75 to 2 tsp per bottle would not have been wrong.

Well I was able to uncap and I added a 1/2 teaspoon so I ended up priming with 1 1/2 teaspoon per 40oz bottle I hope they prime good .

 

[Coastalbrew]

I've always used the priming calculator on Brewers friend and batch primed, it has never steered me wrong.

 

[Garvinator 70]

Well I bottled today on day 12 of fermentation, I used 2 teaspoons per 40 oz bottle . Hope it turns out.