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Okay I'll toss a balloon over it and leave it till morning. Fingers crossed.

At 48 hours, oddly the rootbeer seems more carbonated than the ginger ale. The ginger ale is being made in an old sprite bottle. It's a different style of bottle than the other two, so that might have something to do with it, but it doesn't quite feel rock hard, the root beers are both like...

Thanks, so can I do the hot water bath (I think 140) for the plastic bottles at the end of carbonation to deactivate the yeast? Will they then be safe to leave out? For how long?

I'll say this. The root beer I opened at 48 hours and the root beer I opened at 96 hours + 4 hours of refrigerator were not the same. The second time I opened it it was substantially more carbonated. Not to the level I want, but I'm not sure it started completely at 0. I think some of the...

Okay guys I got 3 bottles just done up. 2 root beer and one ginger ale. I've done them up and squeezed the air before tightening the cap. The ginger ale I'm going to try to get it to 24 hours. The root beer I'm going to leave minimum 3 days, hopefully 3.5 straight before I crack either one...

Well it was in the fridge about 4 hour when my wife got home and insisted we try some. I think she's getting impatient. :D Anyway, much better. Finally. I poured a little in a cup, we had a taste, and it was really good. It foamed a lot when pouring, and you could really see the bubbles in the...

Thanks. It's been 24 hours more. I'll leave it another 24 hours and then toss it in the refrigerator. I did open it slowly. but didn't refrigerate it because I wasn't sure if it was done and didn't want to damage the yeast too much. Next bottle I'll squeeze out the little bit of air. I only...

Right, but the yeast and sugar are still in there doing their thing. Opening it doesn't deactivate it. So at the 48 hour mark. I decided to crack it open. The bottle seemed to be as hard as it could be. I honestly felt like it could explode. It was that tight. When I cracked it, I got a nice...

Does that in any way impact the on-going carbonation? I know it lets the pressure out of the bottle and I'm worried doing so would set back the carbonation, thus making this an even longer process. I noticed when I released the previous bottle it didn't really seem to build back up as fast as it...

Follow-up question here: I started a new bottle yesterday at noon. It's midnight the next day now. About 36 hours later. This is just a little longer than the last time I did it, but already at this point the bottle is rock hard. I can't even dent the side and can only make the smallest of...

I've got a large pot I'll toss over the next bottle. I'm using 1.5 liter bottles. You can't get soda in a 2L bottle here in Korea. I can get 2L water bottles, but I think the plastic is different. I'm not sure if it's made to withstand the pressure of carbonation or not.

Thanks. I'm just about to start another bottle. I'll try to get it to 3 days and see if that makes anymore difference. I just know if one blows up on me, I'll have a hard time getting the wife to stay on board ;)

Hello all, I've started homebrewing root beer and ginger ale here in South Korea. Both are extremely hard to find, root beer is almost non-existent. Once in awhile there are some import A&W 12 packs, but that's it. Ginger ale only shows up in Canada dry or schweppes, but both inconsistently...