apeltes
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I added priming sugar to a batch late last night, but didn't fill bottles until morning. I estimate approximately 9 hours passed.
Question: will my batch carbonate?
Question: will my batch carbonate?
The beer sat in the bottling bucket overnight. It was soaked in bleach before use, and I'm sure it was clean. I bottled the batch. Will it be undercarbonated or totally flat?
The beer sat in the bottling bucket overnight. It was soaked in bleach before use, and I'm sure it was clean. I bottled the batch. Will it be undercarbonated or totally flat?
The bucket was covered and in a clean place. I'm not worried about infection.
After a couple of weeks, if it's flat, should I pour all of the bottles into the bucket to re-prime? Or should I add a dose to each bottle and re-cap?
I didn't plan to do this... just had too many things going on at once.
I like the idea of using tabs. But I doubt the bottles will be completely flat when I add the tabs. Is that a problem? Will I be making bottle bombs?
Dextrose & Dried Malt Extract blend in convenient tablet form. Pack of 250 Tablets. Usage is 3,4 or 5 tablets per 12 ounce bottle for low, med or high carbonation.
Wait and see if it works is my vote.
I bottled a batch while drunk (well more drunk than usual lol) and forgot sugar completely (doing a batch concurrently and distracted). I was going to dump them but got lazy as I didn't need the bottles at the time.
They sat for about ten weeks before I needed the bottles. To my surprise they were decently carbonated. Not perfect but certainly drinkable. I've tried it a few times to replicate those results and even with no sugar and beer with a FG below 1.008 it will work given enough time. Two months seems to be the magic number for me.
YMMV but if you don't want to dump or reprime it may be an option...
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