Hi all,
I recently tried brewing an imperial stout for the first time, and I am having issues with it carbonating in the bottles. This is the highest gravity beer I have brewed, and I made sure to make what I thought was a pretty good-sized yeast starter (1500 mL of water, 1 cup of light DME, and a packet of Wylabs 1056). It got through primary and secondary just fine (as it came fairly close to the target final gravity), but after 3.5 weeks in the bottles, it just hasn't carbonated. Of course I added priming sugar at bottling, and racked on top of it into my bottling vessel as to mix it well. Does anyone have any suspicions of something obvious I may have done wrong? Thanks!
I recently tried brewing an imperial stout for the first time, and I am having issues with it carbonating in the bottles. This is the highest gravity beer I have brewed, and I made sure to make what I thought was a pretty good-sized yeast starter (1500 mL of water, 1 cup of light DME, and a packet of Wylabs 1056). It got through primary and secondary just fine (as it came fairly close to the target final gravity), but after 3.5 weeks in the bottles, it just hasn't carbonated. Of course I added priming sugar at bottling, and racked on top of it into my bottling vessel as to mix it well. Does anyone have any suspicions of something obvious I may have done wrong? Thanks!