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An update, its been a little over two weeks since the homeboy attempt to carbonate the bottle and wow...it worked. Beer is super cloudy and only lightly carbonated but it tastes great. Going to give it a couple of more weeks and try again. Thanks for the input, I think we saved this one.

Update: On Saturday I opened the bottles (Grolsch Style) added a pinch of dry yeast and 4cc of sugar water, it probably should have been more but that's all that would fit in the bottles, this morning there is Krausen on top of some of the bottles so they were transferred to 5 gallon buckets...

If the SG was 1.01 without sugar what should it be after the sugar was added?

One of the bottles was opened and the SG is the same as it was when transferred to the secondary, around 1.01 so it looks like a simple bone-head move on my part. And it doesn't taste sweet so I'm thinking no priming sugar was added....DOH.

Thanks for the input, I've ordered some dry yeast and will rehydrate and put a few drops in each bottle and see how it works. As for why it didn't work? I'm at a loss, they were stored in a closet with other batches of beer in a climate controlled room, there has been about 50 batches of beer...

I bottled a Yuengling clone ale on August 11th, 5 gallon batch, 1.05 to 1.01, used one cup of corn sugar to prime, Wyeast 1056 American Ale. We have opened a bottle once a week since late August and they are all totally flat. Is it possible to empty all the bottles, re-pitch and re-bottle...

Well, its been almost a month, taste is better and it smells better but at the current rate of improvement we won't be able to actually drink it till next year.

We have brewed the HOD kit from AHS several times, the guys in the family get all verclept when they know a batch is in the fermenter. It could be their favorite beer and I am very fond of it as well.

1/2lb Crystal 90L Malt 1/2lb Black Roasted Barley 2 1/2 lb Pale Malt Ale 5lb Amber Extract 3/4oz Northern Brewer Bittering 3/4oz Northern Brewer Flavor White Labs Irish Ale 004

Austin Home Brew has a HOD kit that is pretty good.

Just moved it from primary to secondary, the kitchen smells like a huge watermelon fart...terrible smell. The recipe was about as simple as I could think of. Five gallons of watermelon juice, one lb corn sugar, OG 1.055, Monserat yeast. It fermented quickly, stopped producing measurable...

Well, I will let you know if bringing it to a light boil and quickly cooling it works, its in the fermenter.

We planted three varieties of watermelons in our garden this year and have enough for a five gallon batch of wine. We used a juicer to extract the liquid, it was surprising how much liquid you can get out of a watermelon, about 3.5 quarts for a regular sized one. My question, after it was...

I have used sweet potatos before, cubed, roasted and added to the boil. I can't tell the difference between it and Pumpkin. It makes a very nice autumn ale.