Wittgenstein Belgian Wit - 26/04/09

[the red devil]

Just picked this one up! The beer looks great
The wife is always onto me to make a wit beer but i've always been a bit reluctant.
I have one question. You say "7 days in the FV, then a couple of days at 3.5 vols carbonation" . I'm not sure what '3.5 vols carbination' is? Does this mean you need a cornie to force carbinate the beer? (i don't have one )
Can you bottle the beer with extra sugar an get a similar afect?
Would really like to try this one so i hope you can help.

[DarloDave]

Yeah thats with the cornie, but you dont need to use one, when bottling just stick a bit extra sugar in, i normally do about a quarter a teaspoon to get a "real ale" type carbonation, so i'd up this to about 3/4, being carefull not to go too mad with it though, dont want exploding bottles

[the red devil]

Thanks BD, 'ill give that a go!

[adm]

RD,

Personally, I use cornies, but you can achieve exactly the same thing in bottles.

Beer Alchemy's carbonation calculator says:

To get carbonation of 3.5 vols @ 10C (Vols is just short for volume - so 3.5 vols would mean that for every litre of beer, there is 3.5l of CO2 dissovled in it. I think)

Forced carbonation - use a setting of 30pis
Bottle carbonated (using sucrose) - use 9.3g of sucrose per litre of beer (as Dave says, that works out to about 3/4 teaspoon of sucrose per 500ml bottle, assuming a teaspoon is about 5g)

Hope this helps!

[edit1now]

If you have a standard 5ml measuring spoon, and scrape the granulated sugar level with the back of a knife, you'll probably get 4.6g as I did several times until I got bored.