Sugar vs carbonation drops

[Shutupanddrink]

So my mate's dad keeps pushing me to add a teaspoon of sugar into my beer instead of using carbonation drops. I thought that most of you use carbonation drops so thought that was probably the best option. Any thoughts?

 

[user 144271]

I think most use a bottling bucket and bulk prime.
I use both depending on my mood
Both work just fine

 

[unionrdr]

I used Cooper's carb drops on my first couple beers. They're fine till about 7 weeks in the bottle. Then they turned into soda-like carbonation. I then started bulk priming & haven't looked back.

 

[CleerBeer]

I don't mind using drops most of the time because their simplicity. Sometimes though I use maltose so go back to the manual method!

 

[Cyclman]

Carbonation drops are sugar. I like adding sugar in bulk, but keep drops on hand for when I am tired and sometimes forget to add the sugar in bulk...it happens!

 

[rodwha]

Cheaper and easy to bulk prime.

 

[Munchkin]

i avoid carb tabs, havent had much luck and the time required to carb was alot longer than bulk priming with corn sugar.

 

[Takuie]

I had a friend give a bag of the drops, wasn't enough to carb whole batch so used it up then primed what was left. Noticed after a while the beer carbed with the drops had a different taste. Wasn't a bad taste or off taste, just tasted different.

 

[J187]

It's easier to dial in carbonation by measuring bulk sugar, and cheaper. I use table sugar which I know I pretty much always have on hand. I do keep carb drops though for things like apple wine where I am only carbing half the batch or whatever.