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jeffclk wrote:

When I started brewing, I have kegged all of my beer. I now want to
bottle about 12 to 18 beers of each batch and keg the balance. With my receipes, I get the corn sugar for bottling. I know if I bottle all
the beer, I put all of the corn sugar in the carboy and then bottle the
beer.

My question is - If I only want to bottle some of the beer, how much
corn sugar should I put in each bottle before adding the beer?

Thanks for any help in this matter - I have around 15 bags of corn
sugar from previous batches that all went into the keg.

I use a level teaspoon of castor sugar for 750ml bottles and a
slightly-heaped half teaspoon for the 500ml ones.Some people warn that
this can impart a 'cidery' taste to the beer but that's never been my experience.
Pellets may be a bit more accurate quantity-wise but are not very
economical in the short or long run.


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On Nov 13, 7:16 pm, stoogesbhuja_at_yahoo_dot_com_dot...@foo.com
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Bucket Chemist had written this in response tohttp://www.drinksforum.com/homebrewing/Priming-sugar-2918-.htm :

jeffclk wrote:

When I started brewing, I have kegged all of my beer.  I now want to
bottle about 12 to 18 beers of each batch and keg the balance.  With my receipes, I get the corn sugar for bottling.  I know if I bottle all
the beer, I put all of the corn sugar in the carboy and then bottle the beer.
My question is  - If I only want to bottle some of the beer, how much
corn sugar should I put in each bottle before adding the beer?
Thanks for any help in this matter - I have around 15 bags of corn
sugar from previous batches that all went into the keg.

I use a level teaspoon of castor sugar for 750ml bottles and a slightly-heaped half teaspoon for the 500ml ones.Some people warn that
this can impart a 'cidery' taste to the beer but that's never been my experience.
Pellets may be a bit more accurate quantity-wise but are not very
economical in the short or long run.  

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All i can say is this: http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html?13044439#tag
This is a calculator. Assuming that you want to bottle 12-12oz
bottles and taking for granted that you may leave like a 1oz gap to
the top, that will be something like 12*11oz= 132oz or 1.03125 US
Gallons. Drop in those numbers into the calculator and you get 0.68
oz corn sugar for the whole bottling volume. That would achieve 2
volumes at 75F, my typical bottling temp.
That little calculator has so far predicted my carbonation and i
intend to use it the day i decide to keg too.
Albert.
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I only bottle, and would advise against adding sugar to the bottles, if you get too much they burst.
The better way to do it would be to take a sauce pan and put about 1/8th cup of sugar and a cup of water to the boil, and after all sugar is dissolved ad the entire amount to the amount of beer you want to bottle and stir gently before bottling. Papazian covers this nicely in his book.

Cheers

"Bucket Chemist" wrote in message news:94cae$4cdf1c56$45499b77$9666@news.flashnewsgroups.com...

Bucket Chemist had written this in response to http://www.drinksforum.com/homebrewing/Priming-sugar-2918-.htm :

jeffclk wrote:

When I started brewing, I have kegged all of my beer. I now want to
bottle about 12 to 18 beers of each batch and keg the balance. With my receipes, I get the corn sugar for bottling. I know if I bottle all
the beer, I put all of the corn sugar in the carboy and then bottle the
beer.

My question is - If I only want to bottle some of the beer, how much
corn sugar should I put in each bottle before adding the beer?

Thanks for any help in this matter - I have around 15 bags of corn
sugar from previous batches that all went into the keg.

I use a level teaspoon of castor sugar for 750ml bottles and a
slightly-heaped half teaspoon for the 500ml ones.Some people warn that
this can impart a 'cidery' taste to the beer but that's never been my experience.
Pellets may be a bit more accurate quantity-wise but are not very
economical in the short or long run.


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On 1/25/2011 11:43 AM, ther_richardson@hotmail.com wrote:

I only bottle, and would advise against adding sugar to the bottles, if
you get too much they burst.
The better way to do it would be to take a sauce pan and put about 1/8th
cup of sugar and a cup of water to the boil, and after all sugar is
dissolved ad the entire amount to the amount of beer you want to bottle
and stir gently before bottling. Papazian covers this nicely in his book.

Cheers

"Bucket Chemist" wrote in message news:94cae$4cdf1c56$45499b77$9666@news.flashnewsgroups.com...

Bucket Chemist had written this in response to http://www.drinksforum.com/homebrewing/Priming-sugar-2918-.htm :

jeffclk wrote:

When I started brewing, I have kegged all of my beer. I now want to
bottle about 12 to 18 beers of each batch and keg the balance. With my
receipes, I get the corn sugar for bottling. I know if I bottle all
the beer, I put all of the corn sugar in the carboy and then bottle the
beer.

My question is - If I only want to bottle some of the beer, how much
corn sugar should I put in each bottle before adding the beer?

Thanks for any help in this matter - I have around 15 bags of corn
sugar from previous batches that all went into the keg.

I use a level teaspoon of castor sugar for 750ml bottles and a slightly-heaped half teaspoon for the 500ml ones.Some people warn that
this can impart a 'cidery' taste to the beer but that's never been my experience.
Pellets may be a bit more accurate quantity-wise but are not very
economical in the short or long run.

The simple way for only a few bottles would seem to be with priming
pellets, the little corn sugar tabs that they sell for priming the
bottles. I keep some on hand.

Emergency case if you have none would be left over corn sugar or honey
3/4 to 1 and 1/4 cup for 5gal. You do the math. 1gal= 128oz 1/5cup
sugar and so on 32oz.... 12oz

google "conversions"


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I never had and problems adding a slightly rounded tea-spoon (5mL) of
sugar (in my case, raw sugar) to my 750mL bottles. I used to use a
kitchen funnel in order to make sure I didn't spill any sugar when
pouring it into the bottle.

750 mL = 25.360517 US fluid ounces

Just ensure you ferment the Wort fully flat first.

I also made a practice of tipping my bottles a few times in the first
week to ensure the sugar was mixed evenly throughout the bottled brew.
Since you're using corn sugar, it should dissolve fairly evenly, but I'd
still tip my bottles 2-4 times in the first week.
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