carbonation

[adamlikesthings]

Hi guys,

Looking a bit of help again just wondering the best way to go about carbonating my beer. I'm doing coopers cerveza and it will be going into 500ml bottles, I'm just wondering the best way to carbonate it, should I make a sugar/water mix and add it to the FV before I bottle(my FV doesn't have a tap and i dont have any others or a barrel, would I be able to mix it through properly without disturbing the bottom)? Or should I add a certain amount of standard sugar to each bottle, if so how much, it would have to be approximate as i don't have small scales (for example a level teaspoon)?

Cheers, Adam

[alanywiseman]

General rule of thumb is 5g/l of beer so about 110-120g dissolved in water if batch priming. it would be possible to add it straight to your FV but you will sturn up some sediment. If you want to bottle prime aim for 1/2 tsp per bottle.

[themadhippy]

My method for 40 bottles ,blatently stolen from someone else on here is to mix 100 grams of sugar (2.5 g a bottle)with 100 grams (100 ml) of boiling water,mix until the sugars desolved then put 5ml of the mix in each bottle,a small syringe is only a few pence from the chemist.

[adamlikesthings]

My method for 40 bottles ,blatently stolen from someone else on here is to mix 100 grams of sugar (2.5 g a bottle)with 100 grams (100 ml) of boiling water,mix until the sugars desolved then put 5ml of the mix in each bottle,a small syringe is only a few pence from the chemist.

cheers mate, that sounds like a plan