Priming drops for bottles

[DashminUS]

Hi all. Here is the deal. I used to bottle my beer. Now I keg it. But I would still like to bottle a few bottles to give away. I can either measure out corn sugar for each bottle, or I can buy those little premeasured sugar drops from Coopers.

Has anyone used them? How satisfied was the end results? Would you recommend them?

Thanks in advance.

[BrewDog]

I have heard that they work well.
I use a counter pressure bottle filler, though. Works great, and the bottles are all ready pressurized because I force carbonate first.

[mookow]

Originally posted by DashminUS
Hi all. Here is the deal. I used to bottle my beer. Now I keg it. But I would still like to bottle a few bottles to give away. I can either measure out corn sugar for each bottle, or I can buy those little premeasured sugar drops from Coopers.

Has anyone used them? How satisfied was the end results? Would you recommend them?

Thanks in advance.

They worked pretty well for me. The batch I used them on was slow to carbonate, but that probably has more to do with the 9.7% ABV than with the Coopers carbonation drops.

[Kyle_Draven]

I used the coopers drops for a small batch that I did for Christmas presents. They worked fine took about the same time to carb about 2 weeks. The beer was a wheat beer of only about 5% alcohol. Bigger beers can take longer to carb no matter which method used.

[Beermaker]

I only use about 1/4 piece when I bottle. I for carbonate my kegs and then counter pressure to bottles occaisionally. I hole piece will over carbonate me.

[MmmBeer]

I bought some of these cause i keg and only want to bottle a few as well, question is..... what about sanitization? Aren't you supposed to boil the corn sugar?

[dparsons]

Originally posted by MmmBeer
I bought some of these cause i keg and only want to bottle a few as well, question is..... what about sanitization? Aren't you supposed to boil the corn sugar?

If you make up a corn sugar solution, certainly you need to boil it. You need to sanitize the bottles, the equipment used, anything that comes in contact with what goes into the bottle.

I should think that for a few bottles, the drops would be easier. Less expensive probably too, because it would be difficult to prepare such a small amount of corn sugar.

[HogieWan]

I worried about that too when I bottled my 1-gal batches. 5 seconds later I was relaxing, not worrying, and having a homebrew.