ScottWa
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So I have a big Barley Wine that I brewed last September that is not carbonating. I am debating what to do with it. I followed the recipe for JW Lees Harvest Ale out of the Clone Brews book and followed each step almost exactly. The mini-mash method states to use 3.3 lb of Maris Otter 2-row, I had 5lb 12 oz so I just used it all to give a slight gravity bump. Here's the rest of the recipe:
15.5 lbs LME
2 oz EKG for 60 min
1 oz EKG for 15 min
.5 tsp Irish Moss for 15 min.
1 oz EKG for 3 min
Yeast starter - 2 pints (32oz) water and 4 oz DME with Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale Yeast for 24 hours
OG 1.126 FG 1.036
Target OG from book 1.119-1.120 Target FG 1.029-1.030
Brew date was 9-23-12
Transferred to secondary 10-7-2012
secondary for 6 weeks then bottled on 11-18-12 and re-pitched another dose of Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale Yeast 3 days before bottling.
The recipe states it will be ready to drink 9 months after carbonation and will peak 10-16 months.
I opened a bottle last night to share with my wife as it has been in a bottle for nearly 9 months - not even a fsst or hiss when the cap was removed - not good. The beer was quite flat and unimpressive. What should I do with this beer? Should I remove all caps and try adding a little bit of priming sugar to each bottle? My thought is to open each bottle and put back into a sanitized carboy and re-pitch with either a super high gravity yeast or champaign yeast and see if I can get the gravity down a bit more then re-prime and re-bottle. Sounds like a pain in the @$$ but I also don't want to dump this beer. Thoughts?
15.5 lbs LME
2 oz EKG for 60 min
1 oz EKG for 15 min
.5 tsp Irish Moss for 15 min.
1 oz EKG for 3 min
Yeast starter - 2 pints (32oz) water and 4 oz DME with Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale Yeast for 24 hours
OG 1.126 FG 1.036
Target OG from book 1.119-1.120 Target FG 1.029-1.030
Brew date was 9-23-12
Transferred to secondary 10-7-2012
secondary for 6 weeks then bottled on 11-18-12 and re-pitched another dose of Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale Yeast 3 days before bottling.
The recipe states it will be ready to drink 9 months after carbonation and will peak 10-16 months.
I opened a bottle last night to share with my wife as it has been in a bottle for nearly 9 months - not even a fsst or hiss when the cap was removed - not good. The beer was quite flat and unimpressive. What should I do with this beer? Should I remove all caps and try adding a little bit of priming sugar to each bottle? My thought is to open each bottle and put back into a sanitized carboy and re-pitch with either a super high gravity yeast or champaign yeast and see if I can get the gravity down a bit more then re-prime and re-bottle. Sounds like a pain in the @$$ but I also don't want to dump this beer. Thoughts?