Question: Priming sugar calc = saison

How many volumes of CO2 are you aiming for?

 

I've found these apps helpful on a few occasions too, but in this case, I'd say their recomendations are too high. I brewed a Belgian IPA recently and Northern Brewer's calc gave me a similarly high number. I ended up using an even 5 oz of priming sugar, which was still a little high. The carbonation is on par with a highly carbed saison.

So I would pitch somewhere around 4.5 oz sugar for a 5 gal batch of saison. Cheers!

 

What yeast?

 

I've gone 2.7 vols of CO2 on recent saisons with nice success. Well carbonated and effervescent, not overly foamy though. 6 oz sounds about right to me - but I fermented the thing pretty warm and got about 5.25 gallons into the fermenter.

 

Be carful, she's a beast and will eat everything! I've had some seriously over carbonated beers with that yeast because I 'thought' the yeast was done. What is your FG? And, how long has it been that?

 

Once your beer has reached the final gravity, which yeast was used to ferment the beer is immaterial to carbonation.

@pointyskull, you need to decide on what amount of CO2 you desire and then add the sugar amount needed to achieve that selected CO2 level. According to the tastybrew calculator, a Saison has a target carbonation level of 1.9 – 2.4 volumes of CO2. The Northern Brewer calculator lists 3.2 volumes of CO2.

I prefer ‘regular’ CO2 volumes (e.g., 2.2 volumes) for my homebrewed Saison beers. I use 3.7 ounces by weight of table sugar (for a 5.25 gallon batch).

Cheers!

 

Hmmm - 1.9 to 2.4 seems a bit low to me. Per BJCP:

Mouthfeel: Light to medium body. Alcohol level can be medium to medium-high, though the warming character is low to medium. No hot alcohol or solventy character. Very high carbonation with an effervescent quality.

Obviously to each their own, but I find the aromas jump out of the glass a bit more and the beer tends to be a bit more refreshing with a higher carbonation level. The higher level also tends to prevent a very dry beer (since the FG is usually so low) from being a bit watery. Just my preference is all!

 

Matt,
Plenty of commercial Saison beers are highly carbonated. Highly carbonated beers provide a carbonic bite to my palate; carbonic bite is a less than pleasant quality for me.

As you stated: Just my preference is all!

Cheers!

Jack