Question about bottling

[AEHensley]

I just bottled my new beer. I used 5 oz of sugar for the carbination for the 5 gallon batch. But when I transfered the beer from the fermenter to the bottling bucket I left about a gallon in the fermenter. Is this going to cause my bottled beer to be too carbinated? Or to explode the bottles of over carbination?

 

[specialized]

priming sugar calculator

check out that link.

Desired volumes co2 - based on the style of your brew. Check the drop down menu lower in that link to find an acceptable range

Beer temperature - temp during fermentation. C02 release during fermentation is a function of temperature. The calculator needs to know how much C02 your beer has retained

Beer volume - how much you have

Residual c02 in beer - leave blank

Priming sugar needed - leave blank

Hit calculate.

 

[AEHensley]

thanks alot man

 

[Chris6]

ouch thats a lot of waste. may want to get a siphon set up to get as much as possible without any of the sediment on the bottom.

 

[wyzazz]

I take my fermenter and set it up on a stool in the basement the night before with a rubber stopper underneath one end to tilt it and get more liquid out. I then insert my racking cane or autosiphon and siphon the beer out, I never leave more than 1/2" in the bottom and I'm usually sediment free!

 

[Pappers_]

You won't have bottle bombsbe because of the priming sugar.

 

[Franzi]

Is that calculator right though? For a 5gallon weissbier with a desired co2 of 4.2 at 68 degrees, it suggests adding 8.96 oz of corn sugar. I think the max I've ever used was 5 oz.

For background, I brew my wheat biers using 6lbs extract, with typical hop additions.

 

[wyzazz]

Yep, that's about right. That's an assload of carbonation, I don't know that I'd go that high! The max I've ever done was 3.5 in a very dry Belgian, and it had a lot of bubbles.

 

[Franzi]

I dunno...based on that calculation, I wouldn't trust the site.

 

[wyzazz]

I dunno...based on that calculation, I wouldn't trust the site.

Why? Do you get something different elsewhere? I get really close to the same thing almost everywhere I look.

BTW, you need to make sure your bottles are rated for that CO2 Volume, most are only rated for around 3 Volumes of CO2.