I agree. Not that complicated. Find your desired volume of co2. Create a sugar solution that works for your syringe capacity. Divide batch by number of bottles (if all the same size) and dose each bottle before filling. Works well for me.Weighing/measuring the right amount per bottle is tricky and time consuming. You want to aim at being within 5-10%, definitely within 20% to prevent bigger problems, mostly over-carbonation and bottle bombs.
The crystals/powder may cause extra foaming when filling, due to adding nucleation sites to the beer. There's already quite a bit of CO2 in your beer from fermentation (around 1 volume).
Premixing and adding to the bottling bucket is by far the easiest. Premixing and shooting the right volume with a syringe into each bottle is next.
Perhaps not best practice but I add priming sugar directly to the bottles then fill. I've had no noticeable issues with unequal carbonation.
This process eliminates the primary to bottling bucket step, which not only makes bottling simpler and quicker for me it also eliminates one potential source of contamination and oxidation...but mostly I do this cuz I find it easier and quicker.
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