mjbmw330ci
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This was my first time using DME and only my second batch ever made (first 1 gal kit called for honey not DME) and now I know I obviously made a mistake. Instead of boiling water and rehydrating the DME I merely sprinkled it on top of the racked beer in the bottling bucket and gently 'folded in' until it looked dissolved...
After two weeks with the bottles in a closet in my 70 degree house I decided to open a couple this past weekend and noticed 2 things:
1) both were flat... I've read that DME naturally takes longer to carbonate (3 weeks?), but I'm wondering if my mistake will exacerbate the issue (i.e. never carbonate)?
and
2) some but not all of the bottles had some 'stuff' floating on top... I read that it may be krausen, but I can't really tell (they're brown grolsch style bottles and all the 'stuff' stuck to the inside of the bottle when I poured it out).. I figured if it was krausen then those bottles would be 'extra carbonated' and yet the one I opened was also flat (no pop at all)...
So I guess the newbie question, do I trash them all and try again? I'm worried about adding too much DME if I try to re-bottle the correct way (i.e. how much rehydrated DME would I know to add without creating bottle bombs?)...
Any help would be great...
Thanks in advance,
After two weeks with the bottles in a closet in my 70 degree house I decided to open a couple this past weekend and noticed 2 things:
1) both were flat... I've read that DME naturally takes longer to carbonate (3 weeks?), but I'm wondering if my mistake will exacerbate the issue (i.e. never carbonate)?
and
2) some but not all of the bottles had some 'stuff' floating on top... I read that it may be krausen, but I can't really tell (they're brown grolsch style bottles and all the 'stuff' stuck to the inside of the bottle when I poured it out).. I figured if it was krausen then those bottles would be 'extra carbonated' and yet the one I opened was also flat (no pop at all)...
So I guess the newbie question, do I trash them all and try again? I'm worried about adding too much DME if I try to re-bottle the correct way (i.e. how much rehydrated DME would I know to add without creating bottle bombs?)...
Any help would be great...
Thanks in advance,