Happy 3rd anniversary on the AHA forum, Richard. 
Dave: I always enjoy your posts here. I usually glean useful knowledge and also can also LMAO from time to time. This is one of those times for the latter.
Cheers!
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Wow! Who knew reading the AHA forum could be so educational? I feel so erudite now. ;D
I had to break out the dictionary several posts ago. [emoji15]
And here I thought I was one of the last dinosaurs to still own and use one of those archaic tomes.
Hardly alone there. Know what else a big book like a dictionary is good for? Heaving at those kids on your lawn. [emoji38]
That couldn’t work with the one we have on our mantle. It’s about four inches thick and was published in 1901. It’s good for storing letters and postcards to be discovered later.
Let me see if I can put this in a perspective you can understand. Let’s say someone asks about the engineering behind a automobile fuel injection system and how it affects fuel economy and mpg. And the answers comes back: Well I just put 15 gallons of regular gas from sams and I get 15 mpg. Me too. Well you can find mpg’s for all cars online.
When the respondents get called out on there lack of knowledge their panties get in a wad and the wagons circle and they start spewing out more irrational comments of we have decades of experience driving cars so we should know. As far as I’m concerned the respondents should learn better reading comprehension and show some respect for the author and the question buy not filling up the post with a plethora of useless information. The apologies are due from all of the respondents except bama. If you enjoy stroking each other’s ego so much over nonsense, find another venue. One last thing, if you don’t have any legitimate knowledge pertaining to the questions on the site…move on.
It’s a bit complicated as noted above, but years of experience will get you to a simplified approach. RDWHAHB works easier. Me, I keg. 
BrewBama gave you the technical reference, then you started the name-calling afterwards.
Here is an article from BYO that goes into all the chemistry and technical details
You can also use BeerSmith and other calculators, which will get you the same results without having to do the math yourself.
The problem with all of these resources remains: they tell you how much CO2 your added sugar will generate. They do not account for how much CO2 the beer already contains, nor how much fermentable sugar it contains. Both of these must be ascertained before you know how much CO2 you still want to generate, so you can then determine how much added sugar is needed. Any calculator claiming to account for these factors is disingenuously making wild guesses, as these cannot be known absent actual measurements. Novice brewers would like to believe that there must be simple instructions to follow to obtain the desired result throughout the process. Slightly less novice brewers see a maelstrom of complex scientific principles which all must be taken into account every step of the way. Advanced brewers have intuited enough to triage all of this, finesse things by instinct, employee few hacks, and get the desired result every time. The guys at Budweiser aren’t reinventing the wheel every day, they follow well evolved procedures. Like Dave and Kevin know 2 tablespoons a gallon works for both of them. But you will have to discover what works for you, because you are not them doing things as they do.
Now I know how to define “arrogant”.
Perhaps David K along with a lot of other folks should do a refresher on the proper use of “their”, “there” & “they’re”. And Rob, after rotator cuff surgeries on both shoulders I no longer huck heavy books at those damn kids on the lawn, I use a 12 ga. loaded with rock salt.
I thought it but didn’t say it! LOL
I’ve been following this post for the past few days and finally decided to respond.
David K, there may be a good explanation for your negative attitude, I just can’t imagine what it is.
In one of your earlier posts you said that “respect” had to be earned. I doubt if anyone here is looking for “respect”, but a little civility would be appreciated.
David K. might find that no one is willing to respond to any other inquiries he might have.
Maybe. Does anyone remember BlueFoxy? We never stopped talking to him. ;D
Paul
Blue Fox Icy. Now there was an interesting forumite. Did he ever post anything related to brewing?
Not that I recall. Sometimes I wonder where these guys went. Anyone remember Triple Freak or USMCruz from the MoreBeer forum?