Recent content by NBrasseur

Good analysis about what the problem could be! If you want to do a scientific experiment, next time you bottle sanitize a few with onestep and others by boiling (or any other method you want). Mark on the cap or bottle how you did it and when you open them note the results. Heck, I might just...

Has anybody tried a yeast carbonation at this point? I brown sugar ought not be edible to yeast (being sucrose), but I don't know about the molasses (but will be looking into it shortly...). I suppose that the addition of some corn sugar and yeast at the time of bottling might do the...

What about timing the burps from the airlock? It has been a long time since I've brewed up (like a decade), but from what I can remember I would just wait until the burps slowed down to less than one a minute. Not very scientific, but I remember that it was simple and effective. I think.