NOOB Bottlling TEMP Question?????

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DAS_BEER

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So I have officially brewed my first batch and bottled it. Now I play the waiting game. The question I have is...DO the bottles have to be in a warm place or can they be in my down stairs area that gets cold at night and warms up to a decent temp during the day? Will this affect the taste of my beer? Or should I move them upstairs where its heated. I dont have a lot of room and dont really want to hear my wife....so whats the best thing I should do? If its necessary for the bottles to be warm I will have to tell my to just deal with it... all opinions are welcome.


THANKS!!! :mug:
 
This will give you an idea.

This is why they weren't carbed. Few beers are in that short time frame.

I'm sure your bottle capper is fine.

The 3 weeks at 70 degrees, that we recommend is the minimum time it takes for average gravity beers to carbonate and condition. Higher grav beers take longer.

Stouts and porters have taken me between 6 and 8 weeks to carb up..I have a 1.090 Belgian strong that took three months to carb up.


Temp and gravity are the two factors that contribute to the time it takes to carb beer. But if a beer's not ready yet, or seems low carbed, and you added the right amount of sugar to it, then it's not stalled, it's just not time yet.

Everything you need to know about carbing and conditioning, can be found here Of Patience and Bottle Conditioning. With emphasis on the word, "patience." ;)

Lazy Llama came up with a handy dandy chart to determine how long something takes in brewing, whether it's fermentation, carbonation, bottle conditioning....

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If a beer isn't carbed by "x number of weeks" you just have to give them more time. If you added your sugar, then the beer will carb up eventually, it's really a foolroof process. All beers will carb up eventually. A lot of new brewers think they have to "troubleshoot" a bottling issue, when there really is none, the beer knows how to carb itself. In fact if you run beersmiths carbing calculator, some lower grav beers don't even require additional sugar to reach their minimum level of carbonation. Just time.
 
Thanks guys for the great tips...I am definitely moving them upstairs....I want to pop them open on Christmas day so I can not lose any time...Thanks again!!


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