Nightwulf1974
Member
Hey all,
Not a "newbie"brewer per say, as I've done about 30 batches give or take. Anyways, I'm running into an odd issue I've never encountered before with bottle carbonation.
My recent Xmas ale recipe was batch primed as normal, albeit my priming sugar was pretty syrupy so I had to add some extra water to the bucket before dumping in the beer. I normally never mix/stir as the whirlpool effect has always worked fine.
This batch I undershot my priming sugar amount to be probably 2.2 volumes with a calculator goof. After 4 weeks at 72f and 3 days in the fridge, the first two were flat as a pancake.
The yeast was Voss Kveik and it's all I've used for the last 10 batches due to its ease of fermentation Temps and speed. Brand new o2 absorbing caps, thorough cleaning regimen as I've always used. Same process for the last several batches.
Oddly enough, one bottle I cracked warm had great carbonation, good head and all was good, sans just being warm. I've just this am flipped all bottles upside down and plan on leaving them like that for a 3 days before flipping back upright for 3 more. There's plenty of flocced yeast in each bottle so I know the yeast have done their part.
I plan to put a few in the fridge after the 6 days of rotation for another 3 days before trying again. Any idea what's going on? I thought about adding Coopers drop to each bottle, but that screams duck and cover. Caps are perfectly sealed and do not leak upside down fyi.
Thanks!
Not a "newbie"brewer per say, as I've done about 30 batches give or take. Anyways, I'm running into an odd issue I've never encountered before with bottle carbonation.
My recent Xmas ale recipe was batch primed as normal, albeit my priming sugar was pretty syrupy so I had to add some extra water to the bucket before dumping in the beer. I normally never mix/stir as the whirlpool effect has always worked fine.
This batch I undershot my priming sugar amount to be probably 2.2 volumes with a calculator goof. After 4 weeks at 72f and 3 days in the fridge, the first two were flat as a pancake.
The yeast was Voss Kveik and it's all I've used for the last 10 batches due to its ease of fermentation Temps and speed. Brand new o2 absorbing caps, thorough cleaning regimen as I've always used. Same process for the last several batches.
Oddly enough, one bottle I cracked warm had great carbonation, good head and all was good, sans just being warm. I've just this am flipped all bottles upside down and plan on leaving them like that for a 3 days before flipping back upright for 3 more. There's plenty of flocced yeast in each bottle so I know the yeast have done their part.
I plan to put a few in the fridge after the 6 days of rotation for another 3 days before trying again. Any idea what's going on? I thought about adding Coopers drop to each bottle, but that screams duck and cover. Caps are perfectly sealed and do not leak upside down fyi.
Thanks!