Priming sugar for a stout

[Acoch88]

I'm about to bottle my second batch, and it's a pumpkin spice porter. On my first batch, I was under the impression that I was supposed to use all the priming sugar that came in my kit, which apparently wasn't the case because pretty much every one that I've opened has exploded. So my friend showed me a home brew calculator app that he had, but I can't get it for iPhone, so I'm just wondering how everyone determines the amount of priming sugar to use

 

[duboman]

I'm about to bottle my second batch, and it's a pumpkin spice porter. On my first batch, I was under the impression that I was supposed to use all the priming sugar that came in my kit, which apparently wasn't the case because pretty much every one that I've opened has exploded. So my friend showed me a home brew calculator app that he had, but I can't get it for iPhone, so I'm just wondering how everyone determines the amount of priming sugar to use

Basically a good rule of thumb is 3/4-1oz of sugar per finished gallon of beer-weighed out to the gram or 21-28grams per finished gallon.

Weigh it out and boil in 1 cup of water, pour into bottling bucket and rack onto it to self mix, gentle stir with sanitized spoon and bottle

 

[Acoch88]

That makes perfect sense because my 5 gallon kit came with 5 ounces of priming sugar, however... I used it all and it still exploded when I opened it. I used a 5 gallon Carboy so maybe I need to go with the 3/4 ounce per gallon? I'll try that next time!

 

[BuckSwope]

Here's a priming calculator that you can view on your phone with no issues. It also gives out carb guidelines for each beer style.

http://tastybrew.mobify.me/calculators/priming.html

 

[C-Rider]

That makes perfect sense because my 5 gallon kit came with 5 ounces of priming sugar, however... I used it all and it still exploded when I opened it. I used a 5 gallon Carboy so maybe I need to go with the 3/4 ounce per gallon? I'll try that next time!

Are you sure it was finished fermenting before you bottled?

 

[dracus]

Depending on the type of sugar the weight could be different. I always use sucrose (table sugar) which requires less than corn sugar for priming. I recommend plugging the temp, and volume into the calculator.

 

[RIC0]

I've used as little as 2oz and as much as 5oz.

some beers are low carbed some are higher. I've had a few get over carbed using 4oz and yes it was done fermenting, my stuff sits in primary for 3 weeks.

 

[BigFloyd]

The calculators are helpful (if you input the correct data), but trying to follow the style guidelines some of them provide can cause disappointment.

For a beer that you plan on drinking/sharing, 2.4-2.5 volumes of CO2 tends to work out nicely.

When it asks for a temperature, put in the highest temp that your beer saw during the whole fermentation process.