Priming Sugar

[jpc8015]

How much priming sugar should I use to bottle a five gallon batch of white IPA? My homebrew shop only had corn sugar in one pound bags and I know that is way too much.

 

[Awfers]

How much priming sugar should I use to bottle a five gallon batch of white IPA? My homebrew shop only had corn sugar in one pound bags and I know that is way too much.

Palmer offers an interesting carbonation chart here: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter11-4.html

General rule of thumb is 3/4 of a CUP....

 

[Beergazzi]

By weight Im usually in the 3.6-3.8oz range.

Edit: Be careful if using a calculator to figure this out, an IPA is going to have some 'trub loss' , any beer it for that matter.

Northern Brewer has a good priming calculator, I usually use 4.8gal as my total to account for trub and the liquid I just dont get cause its too close to the trub.

I have a sweet potato beer that may damn well be half trub right now...

 

[jpc8015]

Palmer offers an interesting carbonation chart here: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter11-4.html

General rule of thumb is 3/4 of a CUP....

Thanks for the link, it is very helpful. I guess the question I need to figure out now is...is a white IPA an American ale or a Belgian ale? I guess it just boils down to preference.

 

[Awfers]

It's English.. IPA: India Pale Ale, made extremely hoppy in order to ship it by boat to India for the soldiers stationed there over 100 years ago..