Bottle conditioned sour ale priming dose

[TrickyDick]

Hey.

I tried a sour ale I brewed the other night. Taste is fantastic, but not carbonated enough. I bottled with 1 oz corn sugar per gallon of beer, and it's been at 71-75 degrees for almost 4 weeks since bottling. I'm wondering if the yeast is dead? Approx 11% ABV
What to do? Un cap and add some dry yeast granules? More sugar? Ten month old beer when I bottled. PH was low, can t recall off top of head but in the 3 range.
TD


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[TrickyDick]

So my thoughts on correcting, might be to add more sugar, add fresh yeast, or both.

Previously in attempts at correcting under carbonated bottles, the priming sugar pellets cause gushing. I am wondering about a saturated sugar solution that's been prepared aseptic near sterile and added to bottles after cap removal in sterile fashion and cap with oxygen absorbing cap... Maybe also some rehydrated yeast yeast mixed into sugar solution with a pinch of nutrient in the rehydrating solution? Think getting the carbonation level right will be tricky since it's already had sugar added at bottling.

??

TD


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[youreanimpulse]

Yes to new yeast next time, champagne yeast probably, but I read a lot of stuff about higher gravity and older sours taking forever to carb, but getting there. I had a Barleywine take 2 months or a little more to really get correctly carbed. You may be ok, but it may take quite a while. That's a lot of alcohol, and it's probably Brett chewing on the sugar at this point.

 

[CA_Mouse]

Personally, I would leave them be. Sour bugs are very slow to eat the sugars and the extra time will allow them to produce more carbonation. Like with any beer that is above 10% ABV, time will only improve it. I let my 8.1% sour sit for nearly 2 months before it was carbed. i think it could have used another 2 or 3 weeks, but that was last year's batch (only one 22 oz left). This year I will be letting them go for 3 months.

 

[TrickyDick]

OK, so I think that I'll let the ride until Christmas, which will be 3 months before fiddling around with them.

Thanks

TD