sweetsdream
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My kids wanted to make some cherry soda so I bought some cherry syrup at the brew store while picking up other stuff. We mixed a one gallon batch, pitched the yeast then immediately bottled it in PET bottles I had laying around. I make wine, ciders and meads all year so I understand the process pretty well and I've been squeezing the bottles every six to eight hours and they aren't as hard as I would like. We opened one and poured it over ice and there wasn't much carbonation. Should we have waited for some fermentation before bottling? Today will be the fourth day, are we just impatient?