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Another headspace question
brewchez asked:
How are you priming? Just be sure you are getting a good mix of priming sugar in your bottling bucket, and that all your bottles are clean and sanitary.
LHBS priming with a pint of wwater thouroughly mixed into the wort. All botttles cleaned with sanitizer and then sanitized in a Dishwasher (just sanitzed not washed) immediately before brewing.
I noticed the less headspace in the bottle the less carbonation is this correct?
Exactly, less headspace, less carb.
More headspace more chance of exploders.
well there is a fine balance between enough headspace to carbonate and too much.
if you have too much headspace, the amount of carbonation produced because you intorduced the priming sugar will exist in the bottle as a gas, filling the enormous amount of headspace. this causes explosions. you want the cabon dioxide to exist in the bottle in solution, to be forced to stay in the beer because the volume of headspace you left was not enough for all the gas produced. if there is too little headspace, the beer won't carbonate properly because you build up too much over-pressure and the yeast are inhibited.
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