HughGee
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Hi all. This is my first post here.
My father and I have been making batches of our own homebrew for several years now and we finally decided to make the leap from extract to all-grain. I made the investment in some initial equipment and we soon had our first all-grain batch underway: an IPA. This was also the first time we decided to a secondary fermentation. Everything seemed to be going great, and the beer tasted pretty good (for unfinished beer) at each step of the way. When we bottled the beer, we filled up a party pig and put the rest in bottles. As of today it's been about 10 days since bottling so I decided to open up one of the bottles and try it. The beer tasted great but it was absolutely 100% flat. No head. Not even a hint of bubbles. I opened another as a sanity check and it was the same deal. When priming we used 5 oz. (by weight) of DME. My first thought was that since we did 2 fermentations there was way less yeast that made it into each bottle and therefore it's going to take a lot longer before the carbonation shows up. Another thought I had was that the 2 bottles I opened were filled close to the top and that maybe the pressure pushed the cap open and formed a leak. I just don't know. There is a haze in the beer and some crud at the bottom so I would think that means there is yeast, and therefore carbonation, in the bottles. At this point with our last batch (german wheat) the beer was completely carbonated. Anyone have any idea whats going on?
My father and I have been making batches of our own homebrew for several years now and we finally decided to make the leap from extract to all-grain. I made the investment in some initial equipment and we soon had our first all-grain batch underway: an IPA. This was also the first time we decided to a secondary fermentation. Everything seemed to be going great, and the beer tasted pretty good (for unfinished beer) at each step of the way. When we bottled the beer, we filled up a party pig and put the rest in bottles. As of today it's been about 10 days since bottling so I decided to open up one of the bottles and try it. The beer tasted great but it was absolutely 100% flat. No head. Not even a hint of bubbles. I opened another as a sanity check and it was the same deal. When priming we used 5 oz. (by weight) of DME. My first thought was that since we did 2 fermentations there was way less yeast that made it into each bottle and therefore it's going to take a lot longer before the carbonation shows up. Another thought I had was that the 2 bottles I opened were filled close to the top and that maybe the pressure pushed the cap open and formed a leak. I just don't know. There is a haze in the beer and some crud at the bottom so I would think that means there is yeast, and therefore carbonation, in the bottles. At this point with our last batch (german wheat) the beer was completely carbonated. Anyone have any idea whats going on?