Carbonating and ale ect"????

[Philjobooboo]

Daft question, I'm a lager drinker and like the fizz. I have try end a few ale/bitters but don't like the flat juice. So question is can you carbonate such a beer?

 

[phettebs]

Here in the US, our ales are carbonated to the same level as most lagers. That might be unique to us though. ;-)

 

[Philjobooboo]

Mmmm! Interesting. I take it you'd just prime the bottles if you wanted to do this.

 

[Bezza]

Just over prime your beer and it will be plenty carbonated. I used just over 1tsp per bottle on my wherry for a heck of a lot of fizz.

Also over primed my keg with coopers bitter in it with 160g sugar for 40pints and it was quite fizzy. If the bottle/keg will take the pressure then just over prime it :)

I think (although i'm not positive!) if you bottle early it will also add some fizz to the brew whilst it conditions.

 

[LeithR]

The usual approach is to "Batch Prime" which involves adding sugar at the rate of 5g/1L so for 19L95g of sugar required. Dissolve it n some water over the hob and once boiling take it off and cool it then add it to the bottling bucket, then syphon the beer from the FV into the bottling bucket and you are ready to bottle. You can add a 1/2 tsp of sugar to each pint bottle then add your beer before capping but thats very fiddly.

 

[fizz head1982]

The usual approach is to "Batch Prime" which involves adding sugar at the rate of 5g/1L so for 19L95g of sugar required. Dissolve it n some water over the hob and once boiling take it off and cool it then add it to the bottling bucket, then syphon the beer from the FV into the bottling bucket and you are ready to bottle. You can add a 1/2 tsp of sugar to each pint bottle then add your beer before capping but thats very fiddly.

Or 1 tspn per pint for lager right? - or have I just made bottle bombs? I just used 180g for 23 litres. :shock:

 

[pittsy]

you may have gushers but not bombs with beer bottles , i do 150/60g for a wheat and they are fizzer than lager so around 130/140g would be about right .

 

[Philjobooboo]

Well looks like I have me an experiment to do! On route to the homebrew shop at the weekend

 

[phettebs]

For the record, I batch prime when I bottle as well.

 

[rpt]

Of course you can have your beer as fizzy or flat as you desire. That's the point of homebrew - you can make it how you like. You can even serve ales as cold as lager, if you really want to.