How much sugar for 4gal

I have 4 gals of raspberry cider that is going to be bottled today. I was wondering how much sugar should I add for carbonation? I have never done a batch this big before so I was just going to guess and use 1 and a half cups of normal sugar

NO! unless your planning on using them for grenades. How sparkling are you planning?

What is your current gravity reading?

I haven't taken it yet. Still preping everything. Give me a few minutes and ill take it

I did a little more research I am just going to go with .5 cups of sugar

I did a little more research I am just going to go with .5 cups of sugar

I calculated out at 1/3 cup but alright.

Just don't bottle until everything ferments out (FG: 1.000 or so) unless you plan on stove top pasteurizing. If you are, you can add as much sugar as you want.

Pickled_Pepper said:

Just don't bottle until everything ferments out (FG: 1.000 or so) unless you plan on stove top pasteurizing. If you are, you can add as much sugar as you want.

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They want it carbed

Correct, BnB.

Ferment dry, prime with sugar, bottle. Wait for carbonation.

If they want it sweet. Sweeten, bottle, when carb'd...stove top pasteurize to stop fermentation.

For stove top method see the sticky thread at the top of the cider forum.

Pickled_Pepper said:

Correct, BnB.

Ferment dry, prime with sugar, bottle. Wait for carbonation.

If they want it sweet. Sweeten, bottle, when carb'd...stove top pasteurize to stop fermentation.

For stove top method see the sticky thread at the top of the cider forum.

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It was at about 1000. I added half a pound of lactose for sweetening

cool. sweetening with lactose won't effect the priming sugar and you won't need to stove top pasteurize to keep from getting bombs.

If you have the ability to weigh your priming sugar it will be a little more accurate. I'm not sure how much a .5 cup would weigh exactly.

Here is a nice little calculator to help with measuring. It says about 2.7 oz of table sugar for 4 gallons at 65ºF. (2.25 vols of CO2)

http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html