Adding sugar for bottling/kegging

[Haynesy]

Hi all,
Just a quick question here for when I come to bottling my beer which I'm currently brewing.
I understand it is 1/2 teaspoon of sugar required per pint? What type of sugar do you recommend? Would normal caster sugar mixed in and boiled with water suffice?

Also... I have heard from a few sources, that normally, the ABV will rise by roughly 0.5% when sugar is added for priming in bottles/keg. Is this correct?

Haynesy :drunk:

 

[Moley]

Caster, granulated, dried malt, use whatever you like, the quantities are so small that it's not going to make much difference.

I've heard the 0.5% abv figure quoted too and thought it was cobblers, so I just weighed 4 level teaspoons of sugar and got 21g to the gallon (4.5L). By my reckoning that will give an SG rise of 0.002, therefore 0.25% abv.