Help needed please!! Beer might be flat!!

Hey guys,
i poured a tester today from my lager barrel 2 days before its serpost to be ready to see how it was getting along. But it has very little fiz !! Is this a big problem, can i do any thing if it is flat other than pour it down the sink!

P.s it tastes great tho !

Call it real ale and drink it!

Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the lagar barrels, but if those are what I'm thinking about, you can pressurize them right? If so, throw some priming sugar in there and give it another couple of weeks.

j

GilaMinumBeer said:

Call it real ale and drink it!

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Does that mean its serpose to be like that ??

HalfPint said:

Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the lagar barrels, but if those are what I'm thinking about, you can pressurize them right? If so, throw some priming sugar in there and give it another couple of weeks.

j

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Sorry should have put pressure barrel, do u think more sugar will do the trick what about a blast of co2 ? I just dnt want to reck my barrel on the first batch .

sorry in advance, but what is a lager barrel? is this like a keg? do you have pressure on it? did you add sugar to it to produce bubbles? How long has it been on pressure or on the sugar?
what type of beer is it? high gravity? boy - so may questions..

phatuna said:

sorry in advance, but what is a lager barrel? is this like a keg? do you have pressure on it? did you add sugar to it to produce bubbles? How long has it been on pressure or on the sugar?
what type of beer is it? high gravity? boy - so may questions..

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Hey errm its a pressure barrel, i added half a teaspoon of sugar to ever pint like the instructions said, its been in the barrel now nearly 2 weeks. I have a co2 adaptor on order so should be here in next couple of days but the instructures dint say to add any so i just left it till it needed it and more questions just ask o and its a lager kit

I have a Red Ale (7 days in the bottle) conditioning... is it supposed to be less carbonated???

These are two seperate issues;

stephenaxe said:

Hey errm its a pressure barrel, i added half a teaspoon of sugar to ever pint like the instructions said, its been in the barrel now nearly 2 weeks. I have a co2 adaptor on order so should be here in next couple of days but the instructures dint say to add any so i just left it till it needed it and more questions just ask o and its a lager kit

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Unfortunately very few of us in America are familiar with pressure barrels, they are not common here. Since you didn't put pressure barrel in the thread title you may not get anyone looking at the thread who might know something about them. I'll try to find someone and link them to this thread.

michael_riccijr said:

I have a Red Ale (7 days in the bottle) conditioning... is it supposed to be less carbonated???

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And now YOU mr thread jacker

The 3 weeks at 70 degrees, that that we recommend is the minimum time it takes for average gravity beers to carbonate and condition. Higher grav beers take longer.

Stouts and porters have taken me between 6 and 8 weeks to carb up..I have a 1.090 Belgian strong that took three months to carb up.

And even carbonation doesn't mean that they will not still be green and need more time to condition....

So yeah at a week not having any carbonation is perfectly normal...

Everything you need to know about carbing and conditioning, can be found here Of Patience and Bottle Conditioning. With emphasis on the word, "patience."

Sorry Rev, won't happen again!

Steven, I'm going to reffer you here: http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/index.php

I can't find anyone current here in any of the pressure barrel threads who actually uses them. Most folks are making the same comments as everyone on this thread.which isn't helping you, like I said we don't see many of these in the states.

I suggest you ask your UK brethren, but when you start a thread there put "Pressure Barrel" in your title, it will help get you the right attention.

Ok thanks alot