ahh crap..now what do i do :S
It seems to me my PET bottles didn't harden up that quick. What beer style & how much did you prime to?
Are you sure the beer was finished fermenting before you bottled?
umm...
Taste is not an indicator of completed fermentation. Did you take consecutive gravity readings? If not, for how long did it ferment?
umm...
Taste is not an indicator of completed fermentation. Did you take consecutive gravity readings? If not, for how long did it ferment?
i didnt take gravity readings..it fermented for 11 days
. . . i primed it with 2.5OZ of sugar in about 2OZ of water mixed into the primary
o crap? there seems to be a small amount of yeast that settled to the bottom into the grooves of the bottom of the bottle is that ok? i hope they dont explode, is there anyway to reverse this?
That's normal...
I think you're worrying for nothing and allowing everyone else to scare you. Just relax and walk away from your beers for 3 weeks.
They're in plastic so it's highly unlikely that they'd blow if there were anything wrong, which I don't think there is.
Co2 started being generated almost as soon as you added the sugar. The co2 has filled the headspace hence it being hard....But it still has to go into solution...Folks have posted their bottles were hard on day 2 before, hence the answer I posted. Hard bottles don't mean the beer is carbed, nor does it mean at one day that anything is wrong.
You are winding yourself up..
Just...Leave....them....alone....
Go brew another batch of beer to take you mind off this one.
So, pouring your priming solution into the primary and mixing it up is normal.That's normal....
So, pouring your priming solution into the primary and mixing it up is normal.
Damn! I've been doing it wrong.
I've been wondering how to get that 1/4" of trub at the bottom of each bottle.
dorian345 said:o crap? there seems to be a small amount of yeast that settled to the bottom into the grooves of the bottom of the bottle is that ok? i hope they dont explode, is there anyway to reverse this?
I was referring to the yeast that he mentioned in the post before I posted. His latest panic had to do with....You didn't happen to see the post I had quoted?
To which I said, "That's normal....."
I think you're all over freaking the poor guy out. Remember, he IS using plastic bottles....So even if he did, f it up, which I don't think he did, they can contain a hell of a lot more pressure than glass.
And FYI, although it's not the best way, folks DO add sugar directly to their beer without boiling it...Like in bottles. And a few have dumped pure sugar into their bottling buckets or even fermenters......it's not the best way...but it doesn't mean he's going to have a problem with it. But I wasn't talking about that when I posted what you quoted me on.
So, pouring your priming solution into the primary and mixing it up is normal.
Damn! I've been doing it wrong.
I've been wondering how to get that 1/4" of trub at the bottom of each bottle.
lol i didnt mix up the whole thing, just enough to get the sugar around very slowly, tried not to disturb all the crap at the bottom
Revvy said:What do you mean "what do you do?" There's nothing wrong.
You make sure your beer is above 70 and you walk away for a minimum 4 weeks....And you let it carb up.
It takes four weeks for bottles to carb up?
Sometimes more....Read this...
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