bottling question

[beesley121]

could someone please check my maths please

if I add 80g of brewing sugar to 720ml of water and disolve it

for every 10ml of the water/sugar solution, there will be 1 gramme of sugar in it.

is that right??

so if i then add 10ml og the water/sugar solution to 275ml bottles, this will give me a high carbonation level

thanx

[anomalous_result]

Don't know the difference in volume when something dissolves, but I'd be tempted to say the following. If you put 80g of sugar in a jug and top it up to 800ml then each 10ml will contain 1g. But I doubt you'd need that much water to dissolve the sugar. I'd go to 400ml and every 5ml would contain 1g then.

1g per 275ml of beer is almost the same as 2g per pint which you are right to say is on the higher side of fizz (to me at least).

[beesley121]

thanx mate

[orable]

If it's a lager, or you like your ale fizzy 80g will do you just fine. You do know that unless you have a very flocculant yeast you're only looking at getting maybe 250ml out of a bottle. Just my 0.02c of course but 80+ bottles to sterilize. fill and cap for a 5 gallon brew length, seems a lot of work for a small amount of beer.

[macleanb]

I usually go 450 ml as the number of bottles I use is usually between 40-45, so I know I've got enough.

Of course we are talking 500ml bottles right, I think I'd go doolallysnappers if I had to do 80!

ttfn benm

[macleanb]

Too much beer - I use ~210ml (just figured this out as I use 5ml per bottle duh!)