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Per Bottle Priming with Cane Sugar
Cane sugar whether in ground form or cubes should be boiled or you're risking spoilage.
Also, I have used Light brown sugar, 1/2 cup boiled in pint of water for 5 minutes and poured right into carboy of beer while the sugar solution was hot and it came out fine. 1/2 cup per 5 gallons wa a little undercarbonated so you might want to go with 3/4 cup. But i've always used the boil sugar and add hot to carboy with room temp beer in it and it worked every time.
DC
I cant imagine why you'd want to go to the hassle of measuring out individual doses... Not trying to be mean, I just can't figure it out.. LOL
Maybe I am stupid, but I have tried the individual bottle method.
I like to bottle 12 beers out of every 5 gal. batch and keg the rest. That way when the keg is gone, I still have 12 beers if it was a really good brew. And it gives me the ability to take some of my beer to go without having to fill a growler from my tap. Like taking several different brews to a friends house to share or something.
I have tried adding the 3/4 cup of priming sugar to the entire batch, and then bottling my 12 pack. But sometimes that overcarbonates the keg. (at least initially)
So this information on the 1.75g per bottle helps me a lot. I can multiply that x 12 and boil it into 12T of water, and then add 1T to each bottle. It is a little more work but not that big of a deal. Just a way of getting more useability out of a batch of beer. And I don't get as depressed when my keg blows because I know I still have some of the same brew on back up.
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