Sprinkling in Bottle Conditioning Yeast

[SRJHops]

Has anyone just sprinkled a bit of CBC-1 into each bottle for bottling conditioning? Should I use 2-3 granules for a 12 ouncer and twice that for a bomber?

I bottle right from primary. I usually don't need bottling yeast, but I have a Quad coming up that will need some extra yeast at bottling. In the past I have rehydrated the CBC-1 and tried to figure out how much of the resulting slurry to put into each bottle (it's usually around 5 mls). But it's kind of pain to rehydrate and then dose each bottle, and I don't really want that extra bit of water in each bottle anyway.

I know in theory that it should not matter how much yeast I add to the bottle (the sugar will also be added), but I don't really want to add way too much yeast to each bottle.

P.S. Lallemand (or someone else) should invent bottle conditioning yeast tablets!

 

[DBhomebrew]

I have a Quad coming up that will need some extra yeast at bottling.

Will need? Or could use due to an abundance of caution?

 

[SRJHops]

Will need? Or could use due to an abundance of caution?

Will likely need.... I've had big beers that never carbed up enough.

I actually might dose half the bottles with the bottling yeast and leave it out for the other half - and see how they age.