I bottled up the Cali Common last night. I have been playing around with priming sugar quantities.
The blonde ale that I brewed was undercarbonated. I think I just went with the 3/4 cup of corn sugar in a pint of water formula. The carbonation was pretty disappointing.
This time I tried to calculate using the temperature of the beer at bottling to understand how much priming sugar I would need to get the beer to get the target carbonation I am looking for.
I used 6.5 ounces of corn sugar. I boiled it for 15 minutes in a covered pot and cooled it to room temperature. I added the mixture to my bottling bucket and bottled and capped as usual.
I’ll let you know how the carbonation is in 2 weeks. It should be a little more bubbly than the blonde.
Denny Conn
In the future, there’s no need to let your sugar mixture cool down before using. If you put it in your bottling bucket and then siphon the beer onto it, it will cool instantly. No damage to the beer that way, either.