Bottling first brew

simonl83 · Jan 20, 2016

Hi,

Apologies for the newbie question. I've just made my first brew of lager. I did the second fermentation in a pressure barrel and I've just come to bottle it and there's no fizz. I added 80g of sugar when I siphoned the beer to the barrel which I thought would suffice but apparently I was wrong.

Any advice?

poptarts · Jan 20, 2016

we need more info. but with the info I have. Your first beer was a lager so chances are you screwed it up a ton and it probably tastes like plastic.

TexasDroughtBrewery · Jan 20, 2016

You were carbonating in your secondary, then went to rack into bottles? Not understanding your process here

I could be wrong but you should of just taken the lager off the cake and rack to secondary (diacetyl rest if you wish..I think it helps) then put that bad boy in a cold and regulated temp controlled environment to condition. No sugar should of been added to this part of the process. Did you at least take it off the cake b/c adding the sugar could of restarted the fermenting processes...please give more detail.

flars · Jan 20, 2016

How many gallons of beer do you have? Could the seal on the pressure barrel have allowed the CO2 to escape? Was the beer to cold for the yeast?

TexasDroughtBrewery · Jan 20, 2016

poptarts said:
we need more info. but with the info I have. Your first beer was a lager so chances are you screwed it up a ton and it probably tastes like plastic.

I have a feeling this is the case here unfortunately.

AZCoolerBrewer · Jan 20, 2016

If you brewed five gallons of beer then 150g of priming sugar makes more sense to me. You should put it in right before you bottle the beer so that it ferments in the bottle and makes the fizz in there. Make sure you double check with someone more experienced than me about the amount of sugar though. I have been using conditioning tablets to carbonate my beer.