I will be bottling an IPA next week and all the carbonation calculators I've checked say to use 3.5 - 3.75 ounces of table sugar. This seems low to me. It fermented in the mid to high 60s. Does that amount of sugar seem right to everyone?
I personally use 3.70 ounces of table sugar for priming my IPAs (and my other beers as well). I am very satisfied with the amount of carbonation I obtain for my 5 gallon batches. Cheers!
Sounds about right for the style. A lot of kits come with 5 oz of priming sugar but it's more just to cover your needs and then some. I don't think I've ever used the full 5.
def sounds right. biggest fault of my first few homebrews was overcarbing thinking i needed all 5oz of the priming sugar...used the howtobrew site w/cane sugar after that and all has been well...
Those nonomgraphs on the howtobrew site are both fascinating and educational. But here's a calculator if you want easy... http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html
