Flat commercial beer: Carb myself, drink flat, return?

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I bought a 4 pack of nice beer a couple days ago. The first 2 were totally flat, I'm betting the second two are as well. They taste normal, just 90% uncarbonated. The caps appear to be on right.

Should I add some priming sugar and yeast next time I bottle?

Suck it up and just drink them flat?

Return them?

Never had this happen before. If I carb them, how much sugar per bottle?
 
I would return them, or exchange. So no bubbles coming up from the beer, or just no head? I wouldn't carb them yourself, too much effort and it would change the flavor.
 
return. You don't usually see crap beer in 4 packs so it was likely expensive. Like 10-14 dollar range? The beer should be as it's supposed to be.
 
Return it. If you're feeling nice take the lot or batch number down from the packaging and email/call the brewery and let them know about your experience.
 
Yea, they were 10bucks, so I'm a bit disappointed. I'm nervous about returning them because if they open one and it happens to be fine, I'll feel like a dingbat.

There is no real head when poured, and a tiny amount of bubbles rising from the bottom. From my homebrewing experience it would be equivalent to bottling homebrew and then drinking them 2-3 days later. Reviews of the beer on beeradvocate say nice 2 finger head, so they aren't right.

I emailed the brewery and they said bring them by for an exchange, but it's a 45 minute drive so I'm not wasting my time with that.
 
When I had a funky beer from Stone, I e-mailed them and they UPSed me a freebie of the same beer with some stickers and a pint. Sucks that your guys want you to drive over there for it.
 
Triocd said:
Yea, they were 10bucks, so I'm a bit disappointed. I'm nervous about returning them because if they open one and it happens to be fine, I'll feel like a dingbat.

There is no real head when poured, and a tiny amount of bubbles rising from the bottom. From my homebrewing experience it would be equivalent to bottling homebrew and then drinking them 2-3 days later. Reviews of the beer on beeradvocate say nice 2 finger head, so they aren't right.

I emailed the brewery and they said bring them by for an exchange, but it's a 45 minute drive so I'm not wasting my time with that.
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Just reply and tell them it's 45 minutes away. It'd cost you the same in gas to just go buy another 4 pack, but you don't plan on doing that either as $10/4 pack beer should have better quality control and that you'll just chock it up lesson learned about 'X' brewery. Then see what he offers you :D
 
I'm not ready to out them yet, and I probably won't. I just called the store I bought them from so they said bring them down for an exchange. She said it's weird though. A quad should have a head, right? Both the brewery and the store said it might be the style of the beer. I've brewed tons of tripels and bought many more, they all have a nice fluffy head. Quads too, yes?
 
I returned them for another beer from the same brewery, but the girls behind the counter looked at me like I forgot to take some medication or something...
 

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