hi guys,
I’m new to this community so I hope this is the right place to ask a question. First off I wanna say that I’m a very methodical guy. I write down every detail of my brewing process. This time around, I made 4 different batches of which 2 I had made several times before and 2 were new. For the ones I had done before (a golden ale and a pretty simple pale ale) I followed everything exactly as I’ve done before, the OG was the same as always and the FG too. The ingredients were purchased at the same place as always. The only difference I had is that this time I cold crashed them, which I hadn’t done before. Now, I usually leave my beers to condition in the bottles for 3 weeks but I open one every few days just out of curiosity and to check how it “evolves”. Usually they are nice and gassy from around the 3rd day. This time around though they weren’t. I didn’t panic though, it’s only 3 days. I opened one more on day 7. Nothing. Today was day 15 and they are still really flat!! Just a very tiny psst, but very very flat. I’ve never had this happen before. I condition at 22 celsius (72F), the bottles are well sealed, the priming sugar was recently bought, both their OG were 1.05 and FG 1.01. Is it possible that due to the cold crash there wasn’t enough suspended yeast so there’s nothing to eat the sugar? I can see a thin sediment at the bottom of the bottles though. I also shook them gently at around 1 week. Should I start worrying? I mean, I’ve done these two beers about 6 times each before and never had this problem. Thanks so much for the help.
By the way, the other two (stout and Hefe-Weizen) haven’t primed either yet, but I don’t have any experience with those.
I’m new to this community so I hope this is the right place to ask a question. First off I wanna say that I’m a very methodical guy. I write down every detail of my brewing process. This time around, I made 4 different batches of which 2 I had made several times before and 2 were new. For the ones I had done before (a golden ale and a pretty simple pale ale) I followed everything exactly as I’ve done before, the OG was the same as always and the FG too. The ingredients were purchased at the same place as always. The only difference I had is that this time I cold crashed them, which I hadn’t done before. Now, I usually leave my beers to condition in the bottles for 3 weeks but I open one every few days just out of curiosity and to check how it “evolves”. Usually they are nice and gassy from around the 3rd day. This time around though they weren’t. I didn’t panic though, it’s only 3 days. I opened one more on day 7. Nothing. Today was day 15 and they are still really flat!! Just a very tiny psst, but very very flat. I’ve never had this happen before. I condition at 22 celsius (72F), the bottles are well sealed, the priming sugar was recently bought, both their OG were 1.05 and FG 1.01. Is it possible that due to the cold crash there wasn’t enough suspended yeast so there’s nothing to eat the sugar? I can see a thin sediment at the bottom of the bottles though. I also shook them gently at around 1 week. Should I start worrying? I mean, I’ve done these two beers about 6 times each before and never had this problem. Thanks so much for the help.
By the way, the other two (stout and Hefe-Weizen) haven’t primed either yet, but I don’t have any experience with those.