Heyzy said:
I will have to do it by putting the sugar directly into the bottles as i dont have a second bucket and cant really afford to by another before it will need bottling as its the end of the month.
If you have electric scales, stand your bag of sugar on top of them and just take out how much you need for each bottle. Work out approx how much you need to use beforehand for each bottle.
I can't rememebr what kind of brew you are doing, but 10g sugar per litre will give a very fizzy brew, 3 or 4g per litre will give a mildly carboanted brew.
Alternatively if you do not have scales: 8g per litre (assuming you want something pretty gassy) is near enough 4g for your pint bottles. 1 teaspoon is (I think) roughtly approximately 4 g, so use a tea spoon of sugar per pint bottle. If you are doing an ale style beer, then use a half tea spoon.
Also, one of the best purchases i ever made was less than £1 on a bucket clip. It attaches the siphon tube to the bucket, meaning you do not have to have 3 hands to hold tube in beer with 1 hand, hold tap in bottle with other hand, turn tap on and off with other hand.
I bottle with no issues using a siphon tube with a tap on 1 end, and a 'racking cane' and 'u-bend' on the other end.
Good luck with this! :thumb: