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Oh, sorry.... you're right! one has been bottled since the end of November, one has been bottled since the beginning of the first week of January, the other since the end of the first week of January and the last has only been about 2 weeks (so it may get better, but it is completely flat).

I am using 4.5 oz of corn sugar. I boil 2 cups of water, add the sugar, let it boil for about a minute then let it cool below 80 degrees. Once it cools I dump it in the bottling bucket then rack in my beet from the secondary.

Actually... one of the batches, an amber, has been at my girlfriends moms house (I made it for her for Christmas) where the temperature is consistently between 70-73 degrees; they still didn't carbonate.

Ok, the bottles definitely not a problem. It has got to be a temperature problem.

It does make sense.... But I do most of my brewing in the winter and have never had this issue before. I have my bottles in cases in the center-most part of my house (the warmest). The temperature is steadily 62 degrees, which has always been more than sufficient in the past, even with the exact...

You know, I never thought of that..... I could see that in maybe one batch, but I would have a hard time thinking I would have gotten mislabeled corn sugar four times. I wonder how you would tell the difference though... Wouldn't you still get a light carbonation with lactose?

I'm not sure.... the last two batches were caps from a new bunch.... I haven't had any issues with the capper that I am aware of... I always sanitize the caps as well. How would I tell if the caps aren't sealing properly?

I have brewed close to 30 5 gallon mini-mash batches of beer so far. I have never had an issue until recently. Since September I have had four batches that did not carbonate. I don't get it... Two of them are beers I have made before, two are new recipes. For each batch I boiled 4.5 oz priming...

Is there anything specific I should look for to see if something did go wrong? How can I tell if the batch went bad?

Thank you for the tip! I will start using something other than water..... Is the one-step or sanitizer acceptable to use?

Thank you for the response! I guess I am just paranoid, I really don't want to waste a whole batch.....

Well.... I am a little green to home brewing, but I love doing it and am learning as I go. I just noticed last night that I put water in the airlock and put the cap on it but didn't put the center cap in (the little thing that sits in the center in the water inside the airlock)..... It has been...

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