Hopping4Hops
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So, here's the whole story. Every time I bottle, I pour the last bit of the bucket in a mesh bag and squeeze the hell out of it, filling what I get in a 1.5L (50oz) soda bottle. The bottle is squeezed before capping to get the air out. This one usually turns out to be the best beer out of the brew, probably because of the extra hop aroma extraction due to the squeezing. This time though, the soda bottle wont carb. I'm used to seeing fill up with co2 within an hour or two. This time it's the same for 2 weeks. I tried shaking it, adding in more yeast, adding in more sugar. Nothing changed. This batch was a Milkshake IPA made by racking half of a Neipa batch onto new wort and then again on passion fruit puree. I made two starters prior to the Neipa, so the bottle carbing should be fermentation number 6 for the yeast since it came out of the fridge. I used WLP644 and WY1318 together in this batch, like I usually do for my NEIPAs. Do you think the yeast was stressed too much after all this? Another thing to mention was that there was quite a bit of squeezing during the mashing as well. To specify, after filtering my malt, I threw in quite a bit of flaked oats (25% in total) and mashed them in the wort, until squeezing the grain bag to the point of getting a batter out of them which was added in the kettle and eventually, most of it in this same soda bottle, making a very peculiar looking trub in it. Do you think this batter could be killing my yeast? Sorry for the long post. It's just that I'm trying to troubleshoot and I thought you should have the whole story.
PS: Another thing to mention is that I added a bit of Potassium Metabisulfite in the soda bottle to get rid of the oxygen that was introduced in the process. At first I though this killed off my yeast, but now I don't think so, as adding more yeast after a few days didn't help one bit.
PS: Another thing to mention is that I added a bit of Potassium Metabisulfite in the soda bottle to get rid of the oxygen that was introduced in the process. At first I though this killed off my yeast, but now I don't think so, as adding more yeast after a few days didn't help one bit.