Priming a Firkin

[Bazil]

Hi All,

Does anyone know what quantities of priming sugars commercial breweries use in there Firkins for conditioning? I’ll be filling one up for use with a hand pump so suspect that the quantities of sugar will be a lot less than normal.

Does this sound about right for 1.5 Volumes of CO2

Green beer ready for barrelling fermented at 20C so about 0.88 Vol residual CO2

1.5 – 0.88 = 0.62 Vol CO2
0.62 x 4 = 2.48g/l of sugar
2.48 x 41 = 101.68g total for 9 gallon


Cheers
Barry

[Seveneer]

I use 50g for a pin so your figure of 101.68g for a firkin would seem about right.

/Phil.

[Bazil]

Thanks for the quick reply Seveneer and Chris.