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How much priming sugar and of what type should I add to my hard cider when bottling to produce carbonation?

Is it ok to use screw top growlers for bottling sparkling cider? I have some grolsch bottles and a bottle capper, but I wanted to do some in growlers too.

I plan on bottling a my cider in a couple weeks at which point I was going to prime with 1 ounce table sugar/gallon cider to acheive carbonation. I read somewhere that you can use splenda as a non-fermentable sugar to sweeten. Do you think I could add an amount of splenda at the same time as...

Is there a limit to how long I should wait since I plan on leaving it in the primary only? and are there any other drawbacks from not racking it to a secondary other than cloudiness? Thanks for the help, sometimes these forums are hard to find answers on.

Alright, 3-4 weeks sounds fine in the primary, should I syphon into a bottling bucket, or just syphon directly into bottles to avoid excess oxidation?

I have two ~7 gallon batches of local fresh pressed cider (2$ a gallon pressed right into my bucket, mmm mmm). One with 5lbs of dextrose and champagne yeast, the other with 4lbs of brown sugar and white wine yeast. They have been fermenting for about 1 week and all appears to be going well. I...