Craft A Brew Carbonation Drops - 60 Count Review (2026)

Who these drops are for

These carbonation drops fit a homebrewer who bottles beer or hard cider and wants to skip boiling and dissolving priming sugar solution on bottling day. Dropping one tablet into each bottle before filling is faster and less error prone than calculating a batch sized dose of corn sugar, which matters most to someone who bottles in small sessions or who has made a mistake with over carbonation in the past. A brewer working with mixed bottle sizes, such as a mostly 12 ounce batch with a few 22 ounce bottles, also benefits from a product designed to scale per bottle rather than per batch. Someone dialing in carbonation precisely for a specific beer style may prefer a bulk sugar they can weigh instead.

What is in the pack and how dosing works

The pack contains 60 individual carbonation drops with no added flavor, intended as a substitute for priming sugar in bottle conditioning for beer and hard cider. The standard dosing is one drop per 12 ounce bottle, or two drops for a larger 22 ounce bottle, so a 60 count pack covers roughly a five gallon batch bottled mostly in standard sized bottles with some left over. Craft A Brew has made homebrew kits and ingredients since 2010, assembling its products by hand in Orlando, Florida, which is useful context for a buyer wanting to know the drops come from an established homebrew supplier rather than a private label reseller.

Using the drops at bottling

In practice, a brewer drops the correct number of tablets into each sanitized bottle before racking beer or cider on top, caps or seals the bottle, and then lets it sit at room temperature for the normal one to two week conditioning period the recipe calls for. Because the dose is fixed per bottle rather than measured by total batch volume, there is no need to boil water, dissolve sugar or worry about uneven mixing across a batch, which are the most common ways home bottlers accidentally over or under carbonate a beer. The trade-off is that a brewer cannot easily dial in a lower or higher carbonation target for a specific style, since each drop delivers the same fixed amount of fermentable sugar.

Cost and control versus bulk priming sugar

Compared with HomeBrewStuff's corn sugar sold by the pound or Craft A Brew's own priming sugar in a 5 ounce bag, these drops cost more per bottle of finished beer, since a buyer is paying for the convenience of pre-measuring and individual dosing rather than a bulk commodity ingredient. Against Brewer's Best conditioning tablets, another pre-measured option in this guide, the two products solve the same problem in a similar way, so the choice mainly comes down to price and availability at the time of purchase. A brewer chasing an exact carbonation volume for a specific style, such as a highly carbonated Belgian ale, will have more control weighing bulk corn sugar with a calculator than dosing by fixed drops.

Bottom line

At our score of 7.4 out of 10, these carbonation drops are a solid convenience product for a brewer who bottles regularly and wants to remove a fiddly step from bottling day without sacrificing consistent results between bottles. Anyone brewing on a tight budget, or who wants to hit a precise carbonation target for a particular style, will get more value and control from bulk corn sugar or dextrose instead. For a small batch, a mixed bottle count, or simply a lower stress bottling session, this 60 count pack does what it promises.

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