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Priming Sugar Calculator

Calculate the amount of priming sugar — or other fermentables like DME or honey — needed to carbonate your homebrew when bottling. Choose your beer style to auto-fill the target CO₂ volume, or enter it directly.

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*This calculator uses the equation from "Brew By the Numbers" (Zymurgy, Summer 1995). Fermentability values from the homebrewtalk wiki.

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