Recent content by Mstudens

Thank you for the help! Yes, I do dissolve the priming sugar in hot water (and then let it cool) before adding the beer from the fermenter. Also, I do not think temperature is an issue. I live in South Florida so the bottles are kept at 70+ degrees until I cool them. The first bottles were...

Thank you guys for the input and oxidation could definitely be the issue. Post fermentation I transferred the beer into a bottling bucket where I mixed it with dissolved corn sugar. I then moved in into a secondary bucket in order to filter out some of the hop residue from the dry hop. The back...

My home brew IPAs will not carbonate! The other odd observation is that I bottle a nice light colored beer but after sitting for a week or so, the beer gets very dark and does not carbonate. I have done two batches with slight differences in the grain bill and hops but both turned out the same...