brewchick3
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So on advice I read online, I bottled my beer using cane sugar for priming for the first time. I boiled 2/3 cup in 2 cups of water and added it to the bottling bucket. I read that it will carbonate fine but take 3 weeks. So it's been 3 weeks. I opened a chilled bottle, there was the slightest "pfft" when I removed the cap with a little bit of "smoke" rising from the bottle. I was optimistic until I began to pour. Flat, flat, flat. And I am sad, sad, sad. Anything I can do to save it? Perhaps uncap and add priming sugar and recap? I'll try anything. I hate to dump it. I know I will travel far and wide for priming sugar next time.