Priming London Porter

[Dubstepaaar]

I’m almost ready to bottle my porter but I was wondering what would better to use as priming sugar.
i bought carb drops and I have corn sugar as well, now I’m going to prime the bottles as I go.
I was just wondering what would be better to use and how much per 500ml bottle.
Unfortunately I broke my secondary fermenter so I have to prime the bottles separately, which is a massive shame
Any help would be much appreciated as I’m quite new to brewing

 

[z-bob]

One C&H sugar cube (120-something cubes per pound, I can't remember if it's 126 or 128) is perfect for 500 ml. If these are plastic .5l bottles the cubes should fit in the mouth. If they are glass bottles the cubes might be too big and you'll have to use granulated sugar. The smaller Domino Dots cubes will fit in a beer bottle, but that's really not enough sugar for 500ml and 2 cubes is too much.

I'll see if I can figure out what that is in teaspoons. I think it's 3/4 tsp.

 

[IslandLizard]

You could make a sugar solution and dose with a graduated syringe.

 

[z-bob]

The larger sugar cubes I was talking about are 3.6 grams. (454 / 126) If you have a scale that will measure tenths of a gram you could weigh out that much for each bottle. That goes faster than you'd think. Or find or make a scoop that holds that much; a 3/4 tsp measure is pretty close.

 

[Dubstepaaar]

Thank you for the help,
I didn’t have a chance to get round to these messages but I did refer to this on bottling day.
I did half and half basically.
I used a tsp of dextrose for 20 bottles and the rest I dumped one mr beer carb drop in them.
none has blown up yet so I not as worried as I was before
thank you Z-bob and IslandLizard