Cooper carb drops

I have a wheat beer fermenting (Muntons), starting gravity was 1.04. Starting gravity is now 1.022. I had a taste, and it's still really sweet, and doesn't taste like it's even close to done. It's been a week. Am I doing something wrong?

Just kidding. Actually, I have a question about carb drops vs. sugar. Up until now I've just used table sugar. I know a lot of people recommend against it, but I feel that I've had pretty good results. The last batch I did though, I tried Coopers carb drops, just to give something else a try. The bottles have been conditioning for a week, so I cracked one open (I know it's early, but I've got plenty, I like to track the progress). It was nearly completely flat. Typically I find that after a week, I've got a reasonable amount of carbonation.
Is just a difference between the products (this is also a different beer - could that make that big a difference). Everything else in my conditioning (bottles, temperature, etc) has always been the same.

 

Give it another week and then pop one open - one week is way too early to be making comparisons. Anyways, it will take a while for the tabs to dissolve and for the yeast to go to work on them, so I imagine you would have a slightly longer lead time than you would for sugar that you dissolve into a syrup and then mix into the beer.

Frankly, I would go back to just using table sugar on your next batch. I don't know a lot of people that recommend against it - not sure where you're hearing that. In fact, that's probably what the vast majority of homebrewers that bottle use because it's cheap, easily accessible, and it works.

 

How many drops into what size bottle?

 

I use coopers carb drops, 1 per 500ml. I cracked one after a week, just to check, it was more or less flat but after 2 wks both the carb. and the beer were really nice (it past the brother in-law test) I'm leaving the rest for one more week at least just to get my own idea how the process improves. Hope that's of some help
Also turn the bottle over and back then put away to finish carbing