Priming sugar question.

[Mark H]

Hi folks,

Hoping someone may be able to advise me on the following,

I have recently brewed a St Peters Ruby Ale Kit, its been in the fv for about 12 days and all seems to have gone well. I brewed it to 21 litres, and i have just bottled 16 pet bottles of it. The bottles was primed individually with half tspn of sugar per bottle.

The rest of it approx. 13 litres i am going to put it in a pressure keg so that i can get a keg/bottle comparison.

My question is - How much priming sugar should i add to 13 litres in the keg for this kit? Is there a standard equation to work to? I was thinking about 40g of sugar but would just like to be sure before i add any.

Cheers in advance, Mark. :

 

[danb]

im no expert on this but 35/40g I would go for with 13l. im not sure if putting 13l in the keg will be ok though because of the big head space although im probably wrong so would wait for someone to tell you for sure.

 

[IPA]

If you are only half filling a keg hopefully it has got a gas injector because you will have to loosely fit the cap and give it a squirt of gas to expell the air inside otherwise it will oxidise. BTW 40grs of sugar is about right.

edit: should read 'to fit loosely' we must not split infinitives as my english teacher used to say!

 

[Mark H]

Thanks guys, i'll do that, ive got some of the 8g gas bulbs so i'll squirt one of those into it.

Maybe in hindsight i would of been better to put all of the brew into the keg, batch prime it then draw off beer into the bottles from there.