My unconventional way on carbonation

[Snoochies]

So I wanted to ask your opinions. I know most of you add the priming sugar to the bottling bucket and bottle. I converted the amount of sugar per bottle to grams, weigh the sugar out with my digital scale, and add the sugar and beer to each bottle. I know exactly how many grams of sugar to add to any size bottle. I have never had a flat beer and I figure why change my method when they always come out perfect. I know it may take a couple minutes longer but I have my wife helping me so it's kinda like an assembly-line type operation. Does anybody else use my method and what are your opinions of this?

[HogieWan]

That seems like a LOT more trouble than throwing the whole amount in a the bottling bucket. Also, How do you boil such a small amount to sani the sugar?

[Snoochies]

I don't sanitize the sugar. Typically I purchase a 5 oz sac of priming sugar from the LHBS and just measure it out on my sanitized scale. I know this may sound bad but I've never had a bad batch out of the 12 I've done.

See my buddy's that have been brewing for years have had inconsistent batches. Some bottles have good carbonation and some don't. I've had all very good carbonation.

[HogieWan]

I take that 5oz packet, put it in a saucepan, pour a pint of water over it, and stick on a burner at high heat. As it starts to boil, it mixes in. I pour the hot sugar mixture into my bottling bucket and then start the siphon of beer into the bucket. I leave the hose against one side so that the beer will swirl as it racks over. The swirling mixes the sugar without me having to stick something in there that may contaminate or aerate the beer.

I've never had problems with inconsistant co2.

[Mill Rat]

What he said. ^ That's my method to nearly a T, except I buy the corn sugar in bulk for priming and just measure out 0.5 to 0.75 cup, depending on the level of carbonation that I want.

[Halgarmeister]

Originally posted by Mill Rat
What he said. ^

I buy the corn sugar in bulk for priming and just measure out 0.5 to 0.75 cup, depending on the level of carbonation that I want.

Ditto and ditto. Never had a problem.

If you've had carbonation problems I'd suspect it was a bad bottling job rather than bad carbonation due to mixing the priming sugar into the wort before bottling.

[Vienna Lager]

Ditto, ditto, ditto.

[Snoochies]

No I've never had carbonation problems since this is the only way I've done it. But I'm one of those people that believes if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The head turns out amazing and I don't want to risk ruining a batch.

[onlooker]

That’s almost exactly how I used to bottle, but now I add boiled sugar to the fermentor prior to bottling. I didn’t weigh it tho, I just used a spoon set. was abit of a hassle.