Beer not carbonating in the bottle

[BRbarfanTimmy]

Please try to "report back" on the results for the "rest" of the bottles (those bottled on 6/22 and re-yeasted recently).

I'm not aware of anyone that has experience with adding CBC-1 2.5 months after bottling - so your experiences will be valuable to those bottle conditioning big beers.

The CBC addition worked really well. Just to recap this beer was brewed on 6/1 and bottled on 6/22. Bottle checks at multiple points were all flat. On 8/21 I tested four bottles with 1/32tsp of CBC and they produced good results after 2 and 3 weeks. On 9/6 I added 1/32tsp to all remaining bottles. I opened a bottle tonight after 2 weeks and its nicely carbed up. So to your point @BrewnWKopperKat, it can be done. My belief is that too much yeast was lost in fermentation. I used a five gallon carboy and the blow off was intense. As mentioned I lost at least 3/4 of a gallon of liquid out the blow out tube. In a larger vessel the results may have been very different. Appreciate everyone's input and advice.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

The only beer I ever made that failed to carbonate (I did not try adding more yeast), was a 9.sumthing abv stout, fermented with Nottingham dry yeast.

Ever since, I've used bottling yeast (CBC a couple times, but now, exclusively EC-1118 cuz it's a lot cheaper, and I can't tell any difference) for all of my 8% or higher abv beers.

Also: cheers @BRbarfanTimmy for the update! How is the taste? Judging solely by the abv of that morebeer kit, I'm guessing they are aiming for "Founder's Dirty Bastard". But regardless, how does it taste?

 

[BRbarfanTimmy]

The only beer I ever made that failed to carbonate (I did not try adding more yeast), was a 9.sumthing abv stout, fermented with Nottingham dry yeast.

Ever since, I've used bottling yeast (CBC a couple times, but now, exclusively EC-1118 cuz it's a lot cheaper, and I can't tell any difference) for all of my 8% or higher abv beers.

Also: cheers @BRbarfanTimmy for the update! How is the taste? Judging solely by the abv of that morebeer kit, I'm guessing they are aiming for "Founder's Dirty Bastard". But regardless, how does it taste?

It tastes pretty great actually. I like Wee Heavy style beers and this one fits the bill. I'm in CO and one of my favorites is Oskar Old Chub and this is similar. Not as hoppy as Dirty Bastard. I'm planning on brewing it again. I've got a high ABV abbey ale going now and the kit included a yeast to add to secondary in order to help carb up in the bottle. I racked to secondary last weekend.

https://boomchugalug.com/collection...bbey-ale-beer-brewing-extract-beer-recipe-kit

 

[CascadesBrewer]

The CBC addition worked really well. Just to recap this beer was brewed on 6/1 and bottled on 6/22. Bottle checks at multiple points were all flat. On 8/21 I tested four bottles with 1/32tsp of CBC and they produced good results after 2 and 3 weeks. On 9/6 I added 1/32tsp to all remaining bottles. I opened a bottle tonight after 2 weeks and its nicely carbed up. So to your point @BrewnWKopperKat, it can be done. My belief is that too much yeast was lost in fermentation. I used a five gallon carboy and the blow off was intense. As mentioned I lost at least 3/4 of a gallon of liquid out the blow out tube. In a larger vessel the results may have been very different. Appreciate everyone's input and advice.

Glad to hear! I did something similar a while back. I had a beer (I forget if it was a Quad or a Dubbel) that was flat after a month in the bottles. I might have given it more time, but I wanted to get them ready for a competition (that ended up getting cancelled due to COVID). As I recall, I rehydrated some CBC-1 and injected maybe 1ml into each bottle. It worked great.

These days I just sprinkle a little bit of CBC-1 into higher ABV beers when I bottle them. Based on the discussion above, maybe I need to double check my dosing rate. I have always assumed that it would be hard to underdose given that so little is needed. Based on some calcs using a "2 g per 5 gal" rate, that would be 0.0375 g per 12 oz bottle.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

FWIW, I measured a level 1/64 tsp (aka a 'dash') of CBC-1 and it weighted around 0.045 g.