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Why is my beer flat?
July 26, 2010 - 3:54pm
Brewed a Ruination Clone, after 2 weeks of bottle conditioning 3 out of 4 bottles were less than optimally carbonated. Now 2 weeks later, theres not much difference. i opened one two nights ago, and it was perfect, almost like a Trippel. Today, I opened one, completely flat. It actually still tastes very good, I am still drinking it, but Im wondering what went wrong, this recipe called for adding 1 1/4 cups DME just before bottling, which I did. I didnt want to agitate it and oxygenate it, but as soon as I added it, it was activating and rolling, and going crazy so I think it was mixed up enough. Any feedback is appreciated. Im a newbie, and still extract brewing, following recipes. Thanks.
July 26, 2010 - 9:16pm
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did any of the bottles get to much heat? and did u mix your dme/corn sugar that hopefully was disolved in boiling water then cooled with your wort before bottling? if it doesnt get mixed well and disolved well the dme or corn sugar can sit on the bottom so only the last few bottles get any sugar to carbonate with..which could explain why some were over carbonated and some were not carbonated at all..or if some of the bottles got to hot maybe killed the yeast in them?
id say..give it a few more weeks..if it doesnt carbonate im guessing you could drop some carb tabs and recap?
i know u posted kinda the answers to the questions i asked but just makin sure. but maybe like frank said the caps werent on tight enough.
Jason,
Did you dissolve the DME in water and boil (and chill) before adding to your beer? It's much easier to get a consistent mix when you are mixing two liquids. Another possibility would be your capping. If you didn't have a good seal, you may have been losing the newly formed CO2. An option to test the capping theory would be to shake up a sealed bottle and hold it under water to look for bubbles escaping or just listen for the hiss of escaping gas.
--Frank