So on bottling day, I always fill 2 PET bottles with my brew so that I can tell when carbonation has occurred. When the PET bottles are rock hard, I know that the CO2 has at least been produced and then it's just a matter of waiting for it to be forced into the liquid. So these were my steps on my last batch:
1. boil my priming sugar and add it to my bottling bucket
2. Pitch my brew from the fermenter to the bottling bucket...keeping the tubing under the liquid at all times so it all mixes in
3. Bottle all my beer and cap them
4. Fill my 2 test PET Bottles directly from the fermenter spout with the stuff that I left out of my bottling bucket, as I don't care if a little extra junk gets in these.
So yeah...here I am 3 weeks out and no sign of carbonation in my plastic bottles..still soft to the touch. This morning the light finally went on as to the errors of my way, and I threw a couple bottles in the fridge for the real test.
Yes, I'm an idiot.
1. boil my priming sugar and add it to my bottling bucket
2. Pitch my brew from the fermenter to the bottling bucket...keeping the tubing under the liquid at all times so it all mixes in
3. Bottle all my beer and cap them
4. Fill my 2 test PET Bottles directly from the fermenter spout with the stuff that I left out of my bottling bucket, as I don't care if a little extra junk gets in these.
So yeah...here I am 3 weeks out and no sign of carbonation in my plastic bottles..still soft to the touch. This morning the light finally went on as to the errors of my way, and I threw a couple bottles in the fridge for the real test.
Yes, I'm an idiot.
