theo1069
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I generally keg my beers and fill bottles with the BMBF (when I bottle), but for this wit I decided to bottle condition to keep it cloudy and yeasty. I used Beersmith to carb to style (2.4 if I remember correctly) with dextrose and let the bottles sit for a month. To test the carbonation after a month I took one beer and chilled it in the fridge for about 2 hours, cracked it open and poured. It was perfectly carbed. I went ahead and added about 12 of the wits to the fridge (this was maybe a week ago). My wife grabbed one last night and it poured almost flat. No head and very little carbonation. Thinking it was maybe just that bottle I opened another with the same results.
Am I missing something here? The caps seem to have a good seal, and if they did have a leak I would think that it wouldnt have carbed properly in the first place. Can anyone shed some light on this? I don't want to trash 3 cases worth of perfectly good wit.
I generally keg my beers and fill bottles with the BMBF (when I bottle), but for this wit I decided to bottle condition to keep it cloudy and yeasty. I used Beersmith to carb to style (2.4 if I remember correctly) with dextrose and let the bottles sit for a month. To test the carbonation after a month I took one beer and chilled it in the fridge for about 2 hours, cracked it open and poured. It was perfectly carbed. I went ahead and added about 12 of the wits to the fridge (this was maybe a week ago). My wife grabbed one last night and it poured almost flat. No head and very little carbonation. Thinking it was maybe just that bottle I opened another with the same results.
Am I missing something here? The caps seem to have a good seal, and if they did have a leak I would think that it wouldnt have carbed properly in the first place. Can anyone shed some light on this? I don't want to trash 3 cases worth of perfectly good wit.