Apfelwein with Nottingham. Can I bottle Carb?

[Beer-Baron]

I made a small batch of Apfelwein using Nottingham yeast. I bottled it with some priming sugar and it doesn't seem to have any sediment in the bottles after 1.5 weeks.

Did the nottingham die off after the alcohol content got to high? Or am I worried over nothing and should just wait another 2 weeks to open one up?

 

[Nurmey]

You can bottle carb but it tends to take longer to carb than beer. It shouldn't be a problem for notty but as I recall, to get fully carbonated mine took about 5 weeks.

 

[unclejimbay]

yeah it takes awhile longer to carb.

As long as your OG was not over about 1.090 you should be fine.

1.090 OG would be about 5 gallons of juice + 4 LBs of sugar.

As long as you didnt exceed that Notty should carb fine. If you did put more sugar than that it may still carb, but just take awhile, I would give it at least a month at 70F room temp. If you can put it at 80F room temp it will carb faster.