What is a good amount of priming sugar to use for a med. carbonated IPA(5 gal. batch)?

I use 4.5 oz of table sugar for my pale ales.

I use 4-5 OZ for everything LOL

Thanks guys. That helps.

If you really want to accurately dial in your carbonation volumes for any style of beer try my free Priming Sugar Calculator at

http://www.thescrewybrewer.com/p/brewing-tools-formulas.html

Screwybrewer, when i put in desired co2 volume of 2. for a 5 gal batch. The calculator recommends 3.22 oz. of corn sugar for priming. Im curious, does it take in consideration for the residual co2? I ask because 3.22 seemed low to me. Also beersmith has 3.8 oz for 2.4 volumes and it doesnt say anything about residual co2. Just curious.

Please help me understand - What is residual CO2? Just curious, because when you transfer into the bottles you don't have any significant amount of CO2 as far as I know. Logically, there are residual sugars but not any carbonation. Is that what's being referred to?

Ya, it's just CO2, absorbed, left from fermentation. I wouldn't call it significant, but it's certainly there.

If I pour a glass of cold water from the tap and let it sit at room temp, all these bubbles come out of it and cling to the side of the glass. It's pretty much the same thing.

Even racking, you can see some bubbles in your tube/racking cane. And I made sure it wasn't air getting in anywhere- it's just CO2 that's in solution.

Residual CO2 can best be witnessed at bottling time by filling a small shot glass with beer right out of the fermenter, it will have bubbles in it already.

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The Priming Sugar Calculator factors in the Residual CO2 already in your beer....based on the temperature of the beer you're bottling.

Example:
5 gallons of beer at 70F already has a Residual CO2 of .83 volumes.

So adding 3.13 ounces of corn sugar will increase the co2 volumes to 2.0.


BeerSmith, and my Priming Sugar Calculator, both calculate 3.8 ounces of corn sugar to get 2.4 volumes of co2 into 5 gallons using 60F for the bottling temperature. The Residual CO2 in 5 gallons of beer at 60F is .99 volumes and 3.8 ounces of corn sugar will raise it to 2.4 volumes.....

I hope this principal is easier to understand now.

Absolutely Screwybrewer. Thanks

Is there really any noticeable difference in carbonation between 2.0 and 2.4?

@Dennis77: The best way to find out would be to carb a couple of bottles at each of the co2 volumes and then drink them in 2-3 weeks....be sure to label them so you know which is which.

Thats a good idea