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I am just now really getting into my "assbock," my first brew. I had a very high, fast fermentation that stalled out after 36 hours. I waited two days, pitched a packet of dry yeast to try and get things going again, they did not. The beer had some pretty awful off-flavors, hence the name.
I followed insructions at bottling, and split the batch between a variety of capped bottles and 10 1-liter flip-top bottles. I have been slowly working through the capped ones, and found the off-flavors have been going away nicely. Carbonation on these capped bottles by week three was really good.
Now, five weeks since bottling, I have begun to consumer the brew in the large flip-tops. Of the five opened so far, two have been normal: good, full carbonation, good flavor. The other three have been either completely flat or nearly flat. They also exhibit a small "krausen ring" inside the neck at the level of the beer. The taste of these three were pretty bad, but that could be due to the lack of carbonation.
For five weeks these have been sitting upright in a closet where the temperature was not very well controled, ranging from 70-85 degrees.
Is it possible that with the heat the carbonation got past the flip-tops? Is there a problem with the small, grolsh type flip tops on one-liter monster bottles? Do these larger bottles take longer to carbonate? The bottles, spring clamps, ceramic caps, and rubber seals were purchased new from my LHBS; this was the first time using them.
All of the capped bottles from the same batch stored in the same location carbonated fine. The only difference, aside from the caps, were their size.
I have a Hefe in primary now, with plans on using these large flip-top bottles, but am a bit afraid if they cannot hold carbonation.
Thoughts?
I am just now really getting into my "assbock," my first brew. I had a very high, fast fermentation that stalled out after 36 hours. I waited two days, pitched a packet of dry yeast to try and get things going again, they did not. The beer had some pretty awful off-flavors, hence the name.
I followed insructions at bottling, and split the batch between a variety of capped bottles and 10 1-liter flip-top bottles. I have been slowly working through the capped ones, and found the off-flavors have been going away nicely. Carbonation on these capped bottles by week three was really good.
Now, five weeks since bottling, I have begun to consumer the brew in the large flip-tops. Of the five opened so far, two have been normal: good, full carbonation, good flavor. The other three have been either completely flat or nearly flat. They also exhibit a small "krausen ring" inside the neck at the level of the beer. The taste of these three were pretty bad, but that could be due to the lack of carbonation.
For five weeks these have been sitting upright in a closet where the temperature was not very well controled, ranging from 70-85 degrees.
Is it possible that with the heat the carbonation got past the flip-tops? Is there a problem with the small, grolsh type flip tops on one-liter monster bottles? Do these larger bottles take longer to carbonate? The bottles, spring clamps, ceramic caps, and rubber seals were purchased new from my LHBS; this was the first time using them.
All of the capped bottles from the same batch stored in the same location carbonated fine. The only difference, aside from the caps, were their size.
I have a Hefe in primary now, with plans on using these large flip-top bottles, but am a bit afraid if they cannot hold carbonation.
Thoughts?
