If it is your first time bottling, the extra pair of hands from a friend or significant other will help a great deal. A little sanitizer foam won't hurt anything, but make sure you have drained all the sanitizer liquid from the bottles. I wonder how I know this? LOL. Your dishwasher is also a very good friend. I like to run my bottles through the dishwasher the night before or a couple of days before and through sanitizer the day of bottling.
I bottle the lazy way using longneck bombers. With longnecks, it is very easy to pick a spot to stop on the bottle. If you fill them too much or use too much sugar, you will blow them up. If you do the opposite, you will have flat beer.
Corn sugar is very easy to use. Fill a 3/4 cup measuring cup and double check the weight to 5oz using a kitchen scale, make a simple syrup using 2 cups of spring water, boil for 5 minutes, and add the simple syrup to the bottom of your bottling bucket. Make sure your tubing is long enough when you drain the fermenter and try not to make splashes in the bottling bucket. If you don't have corn sugar, use a calculator for table sugar. It won't take as much.
Good luck. Remember, you will probably make mistakes with the first one. Make good notes and learn from it. Make sure you take gravity readings. I usually save what I have in the hydrometer beaker, put it in the refrigerator, and see how well it tastes flat. If it is good flat, that is a very good sign.
