The "Why is our beer not carbonating?" question mentions "sugar tablets". I am aware of a product called "prime tabs", but as far as I can tell that product is not longer being produced.
I have used Cooper's Carbonation Drops. They're pretty good, but I would rather find something with greater granularity.
Does anyone know of any such thing?
Topic priming carbonation beer homebrew
Category Mac
I find with the stronger flavour beers I prefer, priming with cane doesn't make a difference I can detect.
However, I'm beginning to realise I'm in the minority on this & have a couple of beers in the cellar primed using brewing sugar (which i think is fructose) & will be giving the corn sugar a go...
I would just stick with corn sugar. The tabs always seem like a pain in the neck.
Also +1 on the table sugar no-no. Used it on my first saison, which took months to condition, then I all but wrecked it with table sugar.
Corn sugar is glucose and cane sugar is sucrose. Glucose is a monosaccharide (simplest type of sugar), and sucrose is a disaccharide (not as simple), made from a glucose molecule and a fructose molecule.
Not being a yeast expert, my opinion is that once your beer has the flavor you want, give the yeast something simple to metabolize that will result in the ONLY component you are missing: CO2 (and a little alcohol). Who knows whats in those carb tablets. Monosaccharide/glucose is where its at.
Muntons makes a product called "Carb Tabs". I am pretty sure they are what you are talking about. For your sake, DO NOT use them. From my experience, they do not dissolve all of the way and you are stuck with 2-3 little white chunks in your beer. This particular brew still had chunks in it 8 months after bottling. When this happened I did some research on the topic and it appears that many people experienced the same problem.
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