How much sugar for carbonation

[keat64]

I'm on to my 6th AG, which on this occasion is a change from a English Ale, It's a Wheat Beer.
On all my ales, i've used 100g of sugar per 22l (around 5g per ltr) for the carbonation, which works out great.

However, I want the wheat beer to have a little more fizz, but don't want to create bottle bombs.

How much sugar would you guys recommend. ?

 

[MickDundee]

Brewers Friend reckons 3.3-4.5 volumes of CO2. If you go on the lower end it's just over 10g a litre:

 

[keat64]

thanks, much appreciated

 

[keat64]

200g and it's a right lively little bu99er.
Still early days.

Not as cloudy as I'd have liked but already tastes divine.
Video upload coming soon

http://www.cabletiefan.co.uk/webimages/wheatbeer.mp4

 

[Halfacrem]

Use the 'Calculators' link towards the top of the page. There is a priming calculator which is really helpful. Make sure you take the temperature of the beer before you prime as it can make a big difference on how much priming sugar is required

 

[strange-steve]

Well you're braver than me, I've never went over 2.8 vol with standard bottles. For cloudiness try pouring around 3/4 of the bottle then gently swirl the rest then add to the glass.

 

[MickDundee]

Well you're braver than me, I've never went over 2.8 vol with standard bottles. For cloudiness try pouring around 3/4 of the bottle then gently swirl the rest then add to the glass.

I accidentally primed a batch (my third kit) at around 13.5g a litre (long story - my "teaspoon" held nearly 7g and I used just under 1 per 500ml bottle). The ale bottles all handled it fine, but the 750ml commercial lager bottles didn't (2 Singha and a Birra Moretti) and I had a bottle bomb and 2 cracked bottles.

 

[strange-steve]

I accidentally primed a batch (my third kit) at around 13.5g a litre (long story - my "teaspoon" held nearly 7g and I used just under 1 per 500ml bottle). The ale bottles all handled it fine, but the 750ml commercial lager bottles didn't (2 Singha and a Birra Moretti) and I had a bottle bomb and 2 cracked bottles.

Yikers that's over 4 vol! Good to know I can safely go a bit higher with my saisons then :)

 

[chuffer]

For cloudiness try pouring around 3/4 of the bottle then gently swirl the rest then add to the glass.

lol

:sick:

 

[strange-steve]

:lol: That's the proper way to serve a hefeweizen.

 

[chuffer]

I thought you were joking but just looked it up - apparently the "Hefe" prefix means "with yeast"......didn't realise that meant it should all be floating round in it throughout....eurgh, no thanks

 

[strange-steve]

I thought you were joking but just looked it up - apparently the "Hefe" prefix means "with yeast"......didn't realise that meant it should all be floating round in it throughout....eurgh, no thanks

Yup, you'll like this as well then. In Belgium I was shown how to properly serve a trappist style beer. The beer is poured as normal into a chalice glass, then the bottle dregs are swirled and served in a shot glass to be drank separately. Delicious and nutritious :smile:

 

[keat64]

Here's a video of my wife opening a bottle. (note i'm using flip tops)
Hope this video works ok, I had to rotate it. It doesn't seem to work in Firefox.
The reaction and look on her face is priceless.

http://www.cabletiefan.co.uk/webimages/wheatbeer.mp4

if that doesn't work, here's the original version, but it's flipped on it's side.

http://www.cabletiefan.co.uk/webimages/flipped.mp4