Quick Wheat Beer Priming Question

[0M39A]

Hi all,

just about to bottle a wheat beer, and thought i better check how much sugar to prime with.

only bottling half the batch (11L or so), and using this priming calculator http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html it says i should bottle with 136g of sugar! is this really correct?

cheers

 

[Swinging Beef]

136g per 20 litres sounds good to me.
136g per 11 litres sounds like a recipe for bottle bombs

 

[Interloper]

136g per 20 litres sounds good to me.
136g per 11 litres sounds like a recipe for bottle bombs

The 136g for 20L sounds pretty light on. That would be pretty low carbonation I would have thought, I usually go 165-180 per 22L depending on style....

But 136g for 11 litres sounds waaayyy to much. Ker-pow!

 

[Swinging Beef]

4.74 volumes of CO2 to comply to BJCP guidelines on Weisen

That sounds highly unlikely to me.

 

[0M39A]

Exactly my thoughts. I was thinking in my head 80-90g for 11L

sound alright from any more experienced wheat brewers around?

 

[Interloper]

Exactly my thoughts. I was thinking in my head 80-90g for 11L

sound alright from any more experienced wheat brewers around?

80 would be the upper end I would use if I was bulk priming that bad boy.