urgent help please - sugar

How much sugar per 2 litre plastic bttles for carbonation? Sorry about this but I've got everything sterilised, my siphon rigged and water everywhere.v

 

Im planning on adding half a teaspoon per 2 litre - how does that sound? Dont want em ex;ploding?

 

Too many variables to guess (CO2 volumes, type of sugar, style). Here's an online tool that might help you sort it out.

The Beer Recipator - Carbonation

 

3/4 cup per 5 gallons into a bucket, mix gently (or better still make sugar solution and rack onto it.), siphon into 2 liter bottles.

Issue resolved.

Planet still rotates and the towels for the water are in the top left cabinet.

 

How to Brew - By John Palmer - Priming Solutions

it's the same as any other bottle isn't it? Just siphon the beer into your bottling bucket on top of the sugar to mix it.

 

If you're not using a bottling bucket, the Mr. Beer website recommends 1 1/2 TBSP of granulated table sugar per 2 liter bottle. If you're using corn sugar the amount will be different.

 

Thanks all - I am having a night mare. Ive always drunk straight out of a pressure barrel before and Im sure if I'd started brewing including bottling - I would never have taken the hobby any further. I think this really is a two man job. The pipe keeps sliding out the bucket - there's water everywhere, beer everwhere - Ive wasted so much, and although I started dunking the siphon tube (which is too short) to fill it up, I gave up when I lost my temper and started taking mouthfulls of sanitiser, beer, water and you name it.

 

An auto-siphon can work wonders, and maybe a bottling wand (are you not using one?).

 

Theres a stick bit on the end of the syphon tube but its too short and it keeps coming up above the beer. Im going to wait for someone to give me a hand. I think what made it so annoying was trying to keep everything sterile and not spill water on my MDF floor which may crack if it expands, and failing miserably.

 

Actually... I was having a bad day that day... but it's pretty much cleared in the airing cupboard and I can feel the pressure through the plastic bottles if you know what I mean. By the looks of it, my flooded kitchen and frustration will have all been worth it.