Bottle conditioning my first lager

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  1. JUNCK

    JUNCK Initiate (0) Jan 7, 2011 Washington

    I am going to be bottling my first lager next week and I was wondering if I add the same amount of sugar as I would for 5 gallons of ale.

    If it matters it fermented for 3.5 weeks and has been lagering at 34 degrees for 3 weeks.
     
    #1 JUNCK, Apr 14, 2013
  2. VikeMan

    VikeMan Grand Pooh-Bah (3,067) Jul 12, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    You would use the appropriate amount of sugar to get the volumes of CO2 appropriate for the style. Check out this calculator...

    http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html

    Be careful though. The calculator asks for a "Beer Temperature at Bottling," but the temp you really want to enter there is the highest temperature your beer reached at the end of fermentation or after fermentation. Not the lagering temperature.
     
    #2 VikeMan, Apr 14, 2013
  3. JUNCK

    JUNCK Initiate (0) Jan 7, 2011 Washington

    Perfect thanks!
     
    #3 JUNCK, Apr 14, 2013
  4. tngolfer

    tngolfer Initiate (0) Feb 16, 2012 Tennessee

    Why?
     
    #4 tngolfer, Apr 15, 2013
  5. VikeMan

    VikeMan Grand Pooh-Bah (3,067) Jul 12, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    Because the beer will not have more residual CO2 than it had when it was warmest, unless fermentation (and thus CO2 production) continues after the beer cools down.
     
    #5 VikeMan, Apr 15, 2013
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