eyebrau
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So a real life hypothetical here...
Let's say you have 3 bottles remaining of an imperial stout that everybody pretty much said was your best beer to date (currently nearly at 2 years of age since brew date). Let's also say that there is a reasonably sized and fairly respectable local homebrew competition with submissions being accepted right now, ending at the end of the month. Let's also say that out of the 5 gallon batch, one in about, oh, I dunno, maybe 8-10 or so didn't properly carb (this sat in batch conditioning for a LONG time, and so evidently some bottles didn't have enough yeast in suspension?), resulting in a few under-carbed bottles. Again, there haven't been a ton of them in the batch, but there were definitely some.
Let's also add to the hypothetical that you're 99.9% certain you couldn't reproduce a clone of it if you tried, due to poor note keeping and generally not likely to be easily reproduced circumstances. Could rebrew the recipe, but it probably wouldn't be identical.
With that said... roll the dice and enter the beers? Open and somehow recarb them to be sure of carbonation? Keep them and drink them? Suggestions? What would you do?
Let's say you have 3 bottles remaining of an imperial stout that everybody pretty much said was your best beer to date (currently nearly at 2 years of age since brew date). Let's also say that there is a reasonably sized and fairly respectable local homebrew competition with submissions being accepted right now, ending at the end of the month. Let's also say that out of the 5 gallon batch, one in about, oh, I dunno, maybe 8-10 or so didn't properly carb (this sat in batch conditioning for a LONG time, and so evidently some bottles didn't have enough yeast in suspension?), resulting in a few under-carbed bottles. Again, there haven't been a ton of them in the batch, but there were definitely some.
Let's also add to the hypothetical that you're 99.9% certain you couldn't reproduce a clone of it if you tried, due to poor note keeping and generally not likely to be easily reproduced circumstances. Could rebrew the recipe, but it probably wouldn't be identical.
With that said... roll the dice and enter the beers? Open and somehow recarb them to be sure of carbonation? Keep them and drink them? Suggestions? What would you do?