how much priming sugar?? ( milestones black pearl stout)

[andyspet]

iv,e just started my new brew milestones black pearl, and i was wandering how much priming sugar should i use, i was going to use 150 grams, but im not sure if this would be to much.

thanks for any advice i can get : andy.

 

[zgoda]

There are many free priming calculators, both online and for mobile devices, eg. Brewzor for Android phones.

Brewzor says for 23 litres @22C and carbonation to 2 vol. CO2 it would be 104 grams of plain white sugar. With 2 vol. beer will be mildly carbed, without much fizz.

 

[andyspet]

There are many free priming calculators, both online and for mobile devices, eg. Brewzor for Android phones.

Brewzor says for 23 litres @22C and carbonation to 2 vol. CO2 it would be 104 grams of plain white sugar. With 2 vol. beer will be mildly carbed, without much fizz.

thanks for the help :

 

[lovelldr]

There are many free priming calculators, both online and for mobile devices, eg. Brewzor for Android phones.

Brewzor says for 23 litres @22C and carbonation to 2 vol. CO2 it would be 104 grams of plain white sugar. With 2 vol. beer will be mildly carbed, without much fizz.

Interested to know more about the "2 vol co2". What's this mean? How can we tell how much we want ideally?

Cheers

 

[zgoda]

It's 2 volumes of CO2 in 1 volume of liquid, eg. 1 litre in 50cl. After fermentation beer has some natural carbonation, it's ~1 vol. at 15C, less in higher temp.

Some fairly standard carbonation volumes are eg.:
cask ales 1.0-1.5
bottled british ales 2.0-2.2
German bocks, east european baltic porters 2.3
German standard lagers, American ales 2.5
eurolagers 2.6-2.7
Belgian strong ales 2.7
Weissbiers 2.9 or more

BeerSmith database has accurate measures.