jonnym_ch
Brewer
hi all,
so i'm having some issues, and i'm not talking about my wife .... it's way more serious than that, it's the beer
i bottle my beers and add sugar prior to bottling using an online calculator to calculate the quantity of sugar to add. the beer is around 21?c (70?F) when bottled and that's taken into account when priming. the beers vary in abv from 4.5% for a pale to 6.5% for a saison. so far so vanilla.
recently however i've taken to brewing my pales, wheats, saisons and blanches drier than normal as i prefer them that way. this means mashing at the lower end of the scale. i generally tend to aim for between 1.004 and 1.008 for the fg (except for the saison which is lower). for carbonation i generally aim for 2.1 vols for pales going up to 2.5 vols for the other beers, but they have all turned out incredibly fizzy, way over what they should be.
so my question is, does the fg after fermentation have an effect on the carbonation ? and as a corollary of this, if fg is the factor that changes the carbonation, is there a way of adjusting my calculation to take this into account ?
it's really the only thing that has changed in my brewing so i can't help but think that it might be this.
appreciate any help you can provide !!!!
cheers,
jon
so i'm having some issues, and i'm not talking about my wife .... it's way more serious than that, it's the beer
i bottle my beers and add sugar prior to bottling using an online calculator to calculate the quantity of sugar to add. the beer is around 21?c (70?F) when bottled and that's taken into account when priming. the beers vary in abv from 4.5% for a pale to 6.5% for a saison. so far so vanilla.
recently however i've taken to brewing my pales, wheats, saisons and blanches drier than normal as i prefer them that way. this means mashing at the lower end of the scale. i generally tend to aim for between 1.004 and 1.008 for the fg (except for the saison which is lower). for carbonation i generally aim for 2.1 vols for pales going up to 2.5 vols for the other beers, but they have all turned out incredibly fizzy, way over what they should be.
so my question is, does the fg after fermentation have an effect on the carbonation ? and as a corollary of this, if fg is the factor that changes the carbonation, is there a way of adjusting my calculation to take this into account ?
it's really the only thing that has changed in my brewing so i can't help but think that it might be this.
appreciate any help you can provide !!!!
cheers,
jon