Hello,
It being winter, I've been taking advantage of my cold basement to brew my usual ale recipes without a carboy warmer, just using lager yeast (usually Saflager S-23). It's working great, except the last 2 batches were undercarbonated. After bottling I've been nervously leaving them warm for 6-8 hrs (warm in my house is low 60s!), then back to the basement at 52-54F. I finally registered here to search for lagering threads, and found many explaining that even with lagers, corn sugar priming can/should carbonate at room temps. That explains that.
So I admit I didn't inspect every post in the 10 pages (!) of search results, but... the question is now that it's been sitting bottled and cool for weeks. Can I take my undercarbonated batch and warm it up for a week or two to pump it up a bit? Will the yeasties wake up and finish up? Should I gently agitate the bottles? It's quite drinkable, and I'm not going to open and recap or anything.
thanks for any advice/opinions.
It being winter, I've been taking advantage of my cold basement to brew my usual ale recipes without a carboy warmer, just using lager yeast (usually Saflager S-23). It's working great, except the last 2 batches were undercarbonated. After bottling I've been nervously leaving them warm for 6-8 hrs (warm in my house is low 60s!), then back to the basement at 52-54F. I finally registered here to search for lagering threads, and found many explaining that even with lagers, corn sugar priming can/should carbonate at room temps. That explains that.
So I admit I didn't inspect every post in the 10 pages (!) of search results, but... the question is now that it's been sitting bottled and cool for weeks. Can I take my undercarbonated batch and warm it up for a week or two to pump it up a bit? Will the yeasties wake up and finish up? Should I gently agitate the bottles? It's quite drinkable, and I'm not going to open and recap or anything.
thanks for any advice/opinions.