Max Priming Sugar For Belgian Strong?

[SJW]

am about to bottle my Duvel clone and Docs Abbey's Dubbel. Just wondering how many grams per litre the king brown bottles can handle for the Duvel Clone? From what I have read Duvel is primed to the equivalent of approx 230g of dex per litre. I would be well concerned about priming that hard. So what do you recommend, as I dont want these things going BANG IN THE NIGHT.
As for the Dubbel would that be primed more like a ale? Maybe 7 grams per litre?

Steve

 

[bakkerman]

I've primed Duvel with 9 gr a litre of sugar. I let them carb up for a week, then chilled them for 5 weeks between 3 and 1 degrees. I'ts heavily primed, but no gusher so far. The chilling dissolves the CO2 into the liquid.

I think that's the trick.

 

[razz]

Found this SJW, for what it's worth. have a read. http://ww2.babblebelt.com/newboard/thread....mp;tpg=1#116819

 

[SJW]

I've primed Duvel with 9 gr a litre of sugar. I let them carb up for a week, then chilled them for 5 weeks between 3 and 1 degrees. I'ts heavily primed, but no gusher so far. The chilling dissolves the CO2 into the liquid.

I think that's the trick.

Sounds good

 

[SJW]

Found this SJW, for what it's worth. have a read. http://ww2.babblebelt.com/newboard/thread....mp;tpg=1#116819

Thats a great thread on this subject, although I question this blokes observations.

Steve

If you bottle using the original Belgian fermentation yeast strain then the beer will change dramatically over time and accentuate the characteristics of the particular yeast strain. If you use a neutral yeast strain for bottling then you will not notice any progressive change in the bottle's flavor characteristics as you would using the original fermentation yeast strain. It really does make a huge difference in the end product.

 

[goatherder]

For my belgian strong (with 1388) I used 8.3g per litre and pitched fresh yeast when I bottled. I added a vial of 1388 to 200ml of starter wort and gave it 6 hours on the stirplate. I added this to the bottling bucket with my priming sugar. Carbonation turned out on the high side of spot on. Loads of big fluffy head.