Reddit mentions of Brewer's Best Conditioning Tablets 250 Count

For extract brewing, taking gravity readings is less important as you are guaranteed roughly the correct amount of sugars that the recipe plans for. It will mean you could theoretically run into a problem with a stalled/incomplete fermentation and not know it, but I have done dozens of extract batches without taking gravity readings and have never had it be an issue.

As far as priming, you can do one of three things:

1. Transfer to a separate container while avoiding transferring the yeast cake/trub at the bottom of your fermenter(typically a bottling bucket, but that may not be practical for a 1 gallon batch), boil the correct amount of sugar with water, and add before bottling. You definitely don't want to shake here (introducing oxygen after fermentation is BAD), but you do wanted it mixed evenly.
   
   
2. Use priming tablets. These are standardized sugar tablets that you add to your bottles while bottling. They don't give as much exact control, and for a 5 gallon batch wouldn't be very convenient, but for 1 gallon might be the easiest answer.
   
   
3. Use a priming calculator to figure out how much priming sugar you need, then use a liquid sugar (maple syrup/corn syrup/etc.) and add the correct amount to each bottle, similar to with the priming tabs. You would probably want to use a pipette as the you are probably somewhere in the range of 1/2 teaspoon or 2.5 mL per bottle.

i'd guess you priming caps

https://www.amazon.com/Brewers-Best-Conditioning-Tablets-Count/dp/B006O2D9RE/

Two weeks is a little quick; I find it usually takes 3 and sometimes 4 weeks for full carbonation to develop.

So,

First, let your bottles sit is 65-75F environment for another two weeks and see if it doesn't improve.

Second, if they are the same after two weeks, consider using Conditioning Tablets. Because you have some carbonation, you don't want to get the big ones designed for full carbonation of a 12 oz beer, but the ones I have linked to, which use from 3 to 5 depending on carbonation level desired. You can remove the caps, drop in a one or two tablets, and recap. Wait another two or three weeks and see if that doesn't do it for you.

Finally, don't pour the sugar directly into your beer, but, rather, dissolve it in about a cup of water and boil it to be sure it is all dissolved. No need to cool, you can pour this directly into your beer as the volume of beer is so much greater than the boiling sugar solution, it won't hurt anything. I typically will pour my boiled sugar solution into a bottling bucket and siphon my beer on top of it to be sure the sugar mixes well. You may have to give your beer a gentle stir with a sanitized spoon to make sure they sugar is well distributed throughout the beer before you start to bottle.

An old trick I heard of years ago was to bottle one or two beers in clean and sanitized soda bottles (they also make brown 16 oz PET bottles for this purpose). As the beer carbonates, the bottle will get hard, and you can better judge the carbonation level as time progresses.

Sounds about right, I get 1 gal/hr on my electric stove.

I use these ones, they're tiny so you can adjust based on desired carbonation. Just reading now they have some bad reviews, not sure how these people are messing it up, it's basically just pressed sugar lol.

Just pop the caps, put in the carbonation tablets and cap them again. Its no big deal, just a little extra time. These are the easiest things to use. https://www.amazon.com/Brewers-Best-Conditioning-Tablets-Count/dp/B006O2D9RE

Do you use OneStep to clean your bottles? I noticed I was only getting a metallic off flavor when using OneStep as my cleaner/sanitizer.


**Edit: For one batch you could try using conditioning tablets instead of bottling from a bottling bucket. That further reduces the chances of oxidation, as you'll be bottling straight from your fermenter.


I use these:https://www.amazon.com/Brewers-Best-Conditioning-Tablets-Count/dp/B006O2D9RE

3- Low carbonation

4-Medium Carbonation

5-High Carbonation

Maybe beer carbonation tabs?

https://www.amazon.com/Brewers-Best-Conditioning-Tablets-Count/dp/B006O2D9RE