Can I Carbonate my beer using Dry yeast?

[Kris.J]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forums/beginners-beer-brewing-forum.39/

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I already figured all that out myself, but thank you for the meticulous tutorial. I'm sure there are beginners who will appreciate it.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

thank you for

You're welcome.

And a "pro tip": rants that bottling sucks, "extract" sucks, dry yeast sucks, etc are rarely appreciated in the 2020s (in probably all previous decades).

 

[Kris.J]

You're welcome.

And a "pro tip": rants that bottling sucks, "extract" sucks, dry yeast sucks, etc are rarely appreciated in the 2020s (in probably all previous decades).

It was not a rant, so stop classifying it as such. Saying X sucks is a generalization; and that is NOT what I said. I did not rant, nor generalize as you insist upon stating.

I stated that bottling is a pain in MY ass. Which is very specific, does not generalize, does not rant.

I very specifically stated MY feelings on the matter, without putting anyone else down or generalizing a process as "it sucks".

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Feel free to express you "pain in the ass" topics here ...

eta: and, it needs to be noted that

neither

• Bottling is a PITA

nor

• Bottling is 100% a pain in my ass.

does absolutely nothing to 1) help others or 2) move packaging of home brewed beer forward.

 

[mac_1103]

Some people seem to feel that they are contractually obligated to tell every beginner with a bottle conditioning question that bottling sucks. Others feel that they must defend the noobs against the unrelenting onslaught of such posts. Present company excluded of course.

Personally, I think we can do without the meta-argument.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Going forward, let's agree to

• focus on question and be aware of the forum (context), and ...
• for everything else, there's "Drunken Ranblings ..."

This topic went "off the rails" around reply #10. It may have been better to move some of the "advanced" questions to the bottling / kegging forum or tje brewing science forum. But, whatever.

 

[mac_1103]

This topic went "off the rails" around reply #10.

And everything that the OP really needed to know was in the first reply.

 

[AlexKay]

Chiming in to add this, as I hadn’t seen it yet:

EZ-Cap bottles have much thicker walls than commercial glass in the US. They are rated to 100 psi. They’re pricy, and achieving a good seal can sometimes be fiddly after a few uses, but if you’re bottling a Belgian or a Berliner Weisse or a Grodziskie, they’re probably the safest bet out there.

 

[Kickass]

This has become spirited, I hope it doesn’t start looking like one of those /r/ word forums here at HBT.

@Boribatt, as others have said, if your ABV is below about 10%, or you haven’t done a very long aging, adding yeast isn’t necessary. There’s likely lots of yeast left to carbonate. I no longer bottle but when I did (7+ years of bottling experience), I never added yeast when bottling and I never had a batch fail to carbonate.

I suppose you run a very small risk of over carbonation if you were to add yeast at bottling. That said, if it’s the same strain or a yeast that attenuates less than the original, I’d be comfortable accepting that risk. Additionally, I just don’t seem to read about bottle bombs based on this scenario. In fact I can’t recall ever reading about that. Admittedly, I might not be looking.

At the end of the day, we all make our own risk assessment and implement mitigation. Hopefully you have some valuable info to do that. Cheers and welcome to HBT!

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

I hope it doesn’t start looking like one of those /r/ word forums here at HBT.

I no longer bottle but

FWIW, /r/homebrewing has a number of active, experienced brewers who bottle condition. Their consensus opinion seems to be roughly: avoid risk, even if it's a small risk - as the consequence can be big.

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And, for me, adding fresh bottle conditioning yeast, in combination with bottle conditioning at 75F, speeds up the carbonation portion of bottle conditioning (by about a week).

Sometimes ya gotta change more than one thing at a time to get better results.

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