I have done four all grain beers, and just this afternoon I tasted the fourth.
Trouble is, three of the four beers have had a terrible time bottle conditioning. The first, despite waiting as long as five months, is still completely flat (a small amount of carbonation, but barely worth mentioning). The second (a hefe) actually carbonated nicely in the bottle. The third was a stout that has mild carbonation, but is OK for the style. The last, an IPA I just opened after 2 weeks in the bottle is just as flat as the first.
So, I'm trying to figure out what's going on. I haven't changed my bottle conditioning technique since doing extract (5 oz priming sugar in about a cup of water), but I haven't gotten a single beer to be properly carbonated.
The only other thing that changed was I was using different bottle caps (the colored ones found on amazon.com). I'm starting to think it's the caps, but that doesn't explain why one beer was still well carbonated.
Ideas? Should I be doing something different in the brewing process? I have an AG tripel that's ready for bottling in a few weeks, and I'd love to not ruin it!!
Trouble is, three of the four beers have had a terrible time bottle conditioning. The first, despite waiting as long as five months, is still completely flat (a small amount of carbonation, but barely worth mentioning). The second (a hefe) actually carbonated nicely in the bottle. The third was a stout that has mild carbonation, but is OK for the style. The last, an IPA I just opened after 2 weeks in the bottle is just as flat as the first.
So, I'm trying to figure out what's going on. I haven't changed my bottle conditioning technique since doing extract (5 oz priming sugar in about a cup of water), but I haven't gotten a single beer to be properly carbonated.
The only other thing that changed was I was using different bottle caps (the colored ones found on amazon.com). I'm starting to think it's the caps, but that doesn't explain why one beer was still well carbonated.
Ideas? Should I be doing something different in the brewing process? I have an AG tripel that's ready for bottling in a few weeks, and I'd love to not ruin it!!