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Cool Hand

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Should you hold a bottle of homebrew upside down and twirl to re-suspend settled yeasts to get them activated again? Wouldn't this help with carbonation?
 
I've heard it helps the carbonation/aging process go a little faster, so I do it with my bottles. I wouldn't shake, though, as shaking could dissolve a little oxygen into the beer and make it go stale faster.
 
That basically what you do if you get a struck frementation because the temp dropped to low. I don't see any reason the same wouldn't work in a bottle.
 
I have had to do this a couple of times when my bottles didn't carbonate fully. Great trick. I just roll the bottles along the length of a table to resuspend the yeast, then put them in a WARM place for a week. Works really well.
 
Cool Hand said:
Should you hold a bottle of homebrew upside down and twirl to re-suspend settled yeasts to get them activated again? Wouldn't this help with carbonation?
I go upstairs where the bottles are condtioning (72 degrees) and grab the whole case, tip it on its side a couple of times. Nothing too violent, just enough to hear some slight sloshing.

Do this every couple of days and you'll be fine.
 
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