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balzern

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Hey guys! I made a Winter Ale Extract Kit from NB OG 1.047 and it has been bottle conditioning for a little over 2 weeks but it isn't fully carbed. It is a little carbed but not much. Is this really bad?

Thanks,
B
 
I should just copy and paste revvys response to this question. short answer, no. what temp are you storing the beer?
 
I should just copy and paste revvys response to this question. short answer, no. what temp are you storing the beer?

And why didn't you??????
It would have answered the OP's question wouldn't it?

Balzen, it's simply not ready yet. The 3 weeks at 70 degrees, that we recommend is the minimum time it takes for average gravity beers to carbonate and condition. Higher grav beers take longer. Lower temperatures take longer.

Stouts and porters have taken me between 6 and 8 weeks to carb up..I have a 1.090 Belgian strong that took three months to carb up.

Temp and gravity are the two factors that contribute to the time it takes to carb beer. But if a beer's not ready yet, or seems low carbed, and you added the right amount of sugar to it, then it's not stalled, it's just not time yet.

Everything you need to know about carbing and conditioning, can be found here Of Patience and Bottle Conditioning. With emphasis on the word, "patience." ;)

Read the above blog, and come back to the beer in a couple more weeks.

If a beer isn't carbed by "x number of weeks" you just have to give them ore time. If you added your sugar, then the beer will carb up eventually, it's really a foolroof process. All beers will carb up eventually. A lot of new brewers think they have to "troubleshoot" a bottling issue, when there really is none, the beer knows how to carb itself. In fact if you run beersmiths carbing calculator, some lower grav beers don't even require additional sugar to reach their minimum level of carbonation. Just time.

Patience is all you need to fix this....
 
thanks to everyone and thanks to Revvy I will give it a week more and try it and then try it again in two weeks! Thanks again to the help you have provided!
 

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