hey there homebrewers. I have a question about carbonation, well maybe 2 lol. Im about to bottle a saison thats been almost 5 weeks in the fermentor. I have to read my OG and FG to see if its finish but how do you recomend to prime this beer? I see that saison aim for like 2.5 co2 and ill be using cane sugar for this. Do you recomend bottle priming, puting the sugar cane in each bottle? Cos i see some others making a priming solution into a 1 cup of water and then mixing it with the beer when you transfer it to the bottling bucket. Which one do you think is better, ive been using bottle priming and some bottles almost blew up, thats why im using plastic bottles til i get better in this process.
Boil 2 cups of water and add in the appropriate amount of sugar then place in bottle bucket, after it cools, before racking the beer into the bucket. Be sure to pour the mixture in slowly and don't splash. Priming Sugar Calculator
I always batch prime and use a digital scale. I rack the blend of priming solution in before I rack the beer. Been hitting my preferred 2.6 vols ever since.
Be sure to gently stir that sugar mixture in your bucket so that it is thoroughly mixed into your beer. I always stir using a bottom-to-top stirring motion, and I also do it several times during the bottling process to make sure that heavy solution stays in the beer. Otherwise, you'll end up with different amounts of sugar in some bottles, thus inconsistent carbonation between bottles. Over primed bottles can become gushers or bottle bombs.
Noob question, just wanna be sure, i dont wanna ruined my batch. Sucrose is the same as refined sugar right? And for my 3 gallons batch says 2.5 onz, thats for the whole batch right? Isnt too low for a 3 gallons batch? Im looking for 2.4 carb vol. 3 gallons.
Nevermind. I just cleared all my doubts. Im like to scare of ruining my 5 weeks job. Im good to go now.
http://www.northernbrewer.com/learn/resources/priming-sugar-calculator/ 2.31oz of table sugar / sucrose (65.5grams)
Watch this video Then watch this video Note: I think most people would suggest to put the cooled sugar water in the bucket before siphoning the beer into the bucket. But either way will be fine as long as you don't make a mess out of it.
Yeah, almost. Thank god i was using plastic bottles but some of the bottle caps broke a bit, it didnt let the beer or gas to come out but i think it was close to.
Corb tx for the video. I have the same NB kit and i did just that. In 2 weeks ill try the first beer and see if my carbination was ok. Tx a lot for the info and ill save it for future reference.
