Trying To Referment Bottled Beer

I have about 13 bottles left of an old English Brown that was too bitter for me. Id like to empty the bottles, add about a gallon of water and some more fermentables. How can I do this? Not sure if the existing yeast will take to the sugar, or if I should pitch a new yeast. Thanks!

It will be a lot easier to just leave them in a cool corner for 2-3 months. The bitterness will fade.

theredben said:

It will be a lot easier to just leave them in a cool corner for 2-3 months. The bitterness will fade.

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^that

its been a year. Too many ibus for me.

then mail them to me

If it has been a year I would doubt any yeast would have survived.

VB

So pitching fresh yeast would do the trick if I emptied the beer into a fermenter and let the carbonation go?

Yes it would.

scottmd06 said:

So pitching fresh yeast would do the trick if I emptied the beer into a fermenter and let the carbonation go?

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Well, if you think that watering down the beer, oxiding it by pouring it into a fermenter, and adding fresh yeast and fermentables would improve it, it must be horrible beyond belief. I think you'll do far more harm than good, and still have a sucky beer.

Sometimes you just gotta cut your losses. Spending more money to save a beer that will end up being oxidized doesn't seem like a great idea to me. Just my thoughts!

Pour them out and make a new batch?

I didnt spend any money to add a gallon of water, if anything I saved money! lol

scottmd06 said:

I didnt spend any money to add a gallon of water, if anything I saved money! lol

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Oh, well, ok. It seems like you were mentioning adding fermentables (to take down the bitterness) and adding yeast. If you're just watering down the beer, you'll just be out new caps I guess.

I added a pound of brown sugar, which is a dollar, the gallon of water was $.25 to refill at my filter station, and a pack of Safeale 5. I lost maybe $5 to gain another gallon of beer and the experiment a little.. Money worth spent.

+1 experimentation...
Some of my experiments turned out to be great products...
Then again, other ones fed the gators in the sewer.
Good luck!

I would have just blended it with something appropriate in the glass.

13 bottles? Seems like a lot of trouble unless they are big bottles. I'd make bratwursts or chili with it.

I should have!!! Turned into an infection nightmare. This fermenter ended up having a bad scratch in the plastic that must have harbored some fugitives. Going to look for another English Brown recipe that's more to my liking to begin with next time. Thanks!

well then id argue its money well-spent. you lost 13 bottles of crappy beer and 5 dollars in ingredients discovering an infection that would have ruined an entire batch. looks to me like your curiosity paid off handsomely.

vnyand said:

well then id argue its money well-spent. you lost 13 bottles of crappy beer and 5 dollars in ingredients discovering an infection that would have ruined an entire batch. looks to me like your curiosity paid off handsomely.

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I like the way you think!:rockin:

lol would have been nice to have some english brown though. lesson learned.

Just give them to somebody who likes them. Once a beer is bottle aged, other than blending, there is not much you can do.