Carbonation Tablets

You don't need to sanitize them. I've never used them, but people have claimed both success and failure. The people that didn't like them cited uneven carbonation between bottles, and incomplete dissolving of the tabs...leaving gritty white particulates in the finished beer.

 

I use Prime Dose when I don't keg. I have nothing bad to say about them, They work extremely well. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/prime-dose-priming-sugar-and-yeast-carbonation-capsules.html

 

I've used sugar cubes in the past, Domino's dots I think they were called. Just clean hands and dropped them in, racked and capped.

 

I mostly keg, but every now and again bottle if we do a barrel-aged beer or something like that. I have had no issues with carb tabs, though obviously you can get sediment with the bottle refermentation. The reason I like carb tabs is I feel I get a more consistent level of carbonation than I do when batch priming.

 

This question comes up from time to time.
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Used them without any problems at all, but are quite expensive for what they are (i.e. plain sugar).

 

Good for screw-ups when you forget to add the priming sugar and get all the way done and realize the priming sugar is still sitting on the stove, untouched. Otherwise don't bother, do it the regular way. Sanitize and fill bottles normally then drop in the priming tab(s).

 

You're most welcome. Always happy to help noobrewers become more self-sufficient.