flat beer, can I open bottles & put more sugar in them?

[CROM]

I used 3/4 of a cup of corn sugar for priming sugar in a 6 gallon batch ... my bottles have been sitting for 2 weeks now, and Ive tried one at one week, and now another at the end of 2 weeks... and...

its kinda flat, I like the taste just wish it was more carbonated...

can I open up each bottle and put a lil bit of sugar in each one to improve the carbonation?

or how about shake each bottle a little bit and let it sit for a while?

the last batch, I primed each bottle and the Carb was great, I guess I should have used more than 3/4 cup of sugar for 6 gallons...

besides just living with this mistake, is there any cure to this?

Ive read that lagers take a while, but this was a muntons american style light lager LME can, does the timeline still apply to something like this?

thanks again, you guys rock!

 

[COLObrewer]

Could take 21 days or so for carbonation.

 

[Ernie3]

I would give it more time, I believe 3 weeks is the magic number in ideal conditions.

What temp. are you bottle condtioning in? If it is too cold I think it will take longer.

 

[WenValley]

I'd recommend just giving it more time. Like Ernie said, the temperature that the bottles are conditioning at is important. Too cool and the yeasties hibernate.

 

[ArcaneXor]

Warm them up and give them a shake. Adding more sugar won't work - the sugar crystals are CO2 nucleation sites, so the bottles will start gushing like crazy as soon as you add the sugar.

 

[smizak]

That's plenty of sugar. Adding anymore risks the dreaded bottle bombs.

Warm them up and shake them, or just wait longer. I have an oatmeal stout that is 3 weeks in the bottle and is not carbed totally yet. I knew this would happen, I used S-04 and it's very flocculent, so not much yeast made it into the bottles. It will get there, no worries.

 

[Revvy]

If you add more sugar then the bottles will more than likely explode. There's nothing wrrong with your beer, just the brewer. He's impatient.

The 3 weeks at 70 degrees, that that we recommend is the minimum time it takes for average gravity beers to carbonate and condition. Higher grav beers 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.


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

 

[CROM]

thanks guys!

yeah, I store them at room temp so like 20-25*Celsius ...

I just gave them a shake right now and put them back...

once again thanks guys your all awesome!

 

[osagedr]

I am encountering a similar situation with my Brew House Munich Dark Lager. It's been a month in the bottle at 70 degrees and no carbonation. I found it a bit (but not overly I guess) odd that this kit fermented all the way down to 1.007. I made this one with a friend and we tried to rig up a blowoff tube onto an airlock but it was not big enough so we had foam coming out everywhere; my guess is that has nothing to do with what I'm experiencing but I thought I'd mention it because that is the only thing that was different from this kit to the dozen other ones I've done. I guess I will give it a bit more time but I'm a bit concerned. However...after being a member here for awhile...I know to be patient!

 

[CROM]

If you add more sugar then the bottles will more than likely explode. There's nothing wrrong with your beer, just the brewer. He's impatient.

The 3 weeks at 70 degrees, that that we recommend is the minimum time it takes for average gravity beers to carbonate and condition. Higher grav beers 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.


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

that thread was epic, it answered many many answers thanks Revvy!

 

[Revvy]

that thread was epic, it answered many many answers thanks Revvy!

Like most of my blogs, I wrote it after answering the same question for the first 100 times in a week......

Glad it helped.