cidery porter

So I have brewed 3 beers that all came out well. My 4th was the robust porter kit from brewers best. Brewed it did 2 weeks in the primary 2 in the secondary. Fermented fine and gave it a taste before bottling. Tasted pretty good just not carbd. Bottled and after racking it into the bucket with priming sugar.

After 3 weeks in the bottle it tastes kind of like cider and nothing like what it did before I bottled and it really isn't carbd. I dont know what i did wrong since I followed the same procedure as the prior beers. Do I need to just keep waiting?

Thank you

Can you put your recipe up, along with any additions that may have been above and beyond what the kit included?

I did the kit and didn't add or do anything out of the usual. I feel like the yeast just isnt doing their job in the bottles since it has not carbed and the sweetness could be from the priming sugar. Wondering if I should un bottle it all into a corny keg and pitch in some yeast. Any thoughts?

Thank you

wait longer.

ArtVandelay said:

wait longer.

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i second that.

3 weeks later.....for a total of six weeks total in the bottle...... no improvement

mclane2003 said:

3 weeks later.....for a total of six weeks total in the bottle...... no improvement

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Ouch.

What did you use to sanitise your bottles with? It could be that residue killed the yeast that was also active.

Also what temperature were the bottles stored in?

I used star san then ran the bottles through the dishwasher. Thinking maybe I didnt wait long enough for the bottles to cool off. Could I save the batch by unbottling into a corny and pitching some yeast?

People will tell you just to keep waiting but I will tell you from experience you can wait forever and it may never go away.

I have had two beers out of about 60 that wound up with a cider taste. I still have a porter that I brewed last year in march and it still has the cider taste. I use it to cook with.

The first beer I did I kept for 6 months (cream Ale) and it never got better. When I poured it out the whole kitchen smelled like apple cider.