carbonation speed??

[OHIOSTEVE]

what is the fastest you guys have had a beer carb up in the botle? I botled the super ultra light batch on the 5th. Put 6 in plastic bottles and they are hard already.

 

[Grinder12000]

Two weeks when they were infected as a foamer. Otherwise 3 weeks seems to be the default for perfect carbing.

 

[Malticulous]

24 hours. 10char

 

[Revvy]

I had a couple of beers surprise me recently and carb up after about 10 days, but that's because I was gone about a week, and my loft was about 88 degrees for several days. And they were beers under 1.060. But normally the minimum time is 3 weeks. Some longer.

 

[Bru]

Revvy, please post that picture again. The one that explains carbonation/time/gravity. Please

 

[smizak]

I had a pale ale with US-05 carb up in two days.

 

[wyzazz]

The earliest I've ever checked a beer is 6 days, that one surprisingly was ready! But I let it sit for another week before chilling any. I've got a Barleywine bottle conditioning right now that has almost no carbonation at 2 months, but it's 15.47% so it's going to take a while.

 

[kryolla]

My 12oz bottles usually carbs in a week

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

The earliest I've ever checked a beer is 6 days, that one surprisingly was ready! But I let it sit for another week before chilling any. I've got a Barleywine bottle conditioning right now that has almost no carbonation at 2 months, but it's 15.47% so it's going to take a while.

I have a barley wine that has been in the bottle almost 3 months now... Checked one a couple weeks back and still flat tastes good though.

 

[Gman2]

I have had a beer carb up in about 5 days but it tasted terrible. I think it needs about 2 more months in the bottle to mellow out and stop tasting like chemicals. Hopefully it is not infected, but I had a lot of trouble with it, pitched yeast 2 times then racked onto a yeast cake. So that (and the high 70 temp) helped it carb fast.