Help determining why my bottles aren't carbonating

[guitarguy6]

Hey guys, I usually keg but have decided to bottle some of my beer in order to share it with friends and taste it after a few months of conditioning. I used Brewers Best carbonation drops and bottled about 2 weeks ago. I cracked one open yesterday and there was 0 carbonation. The beer spent about 1 week in a primary and then about 5 days cold crashed in a fridge. The beer bottles were stored around 57F. I haven't bottled in a few years but I seem to recall 2 weeks being enough to carbonate a bottle. Is the issue because I cold crashed and there's not enough yeast? Are the bottles being stored to cold or is it something else? These are the carbonation drops I used https://www.homebrewing.org/Brewers-Best-Carbonation-Drops_p_5067.html

 

[hunter_le five]

2 weeks is sometimes enough, but sometimes it can be more like 3.

Bottle conditioning at 57°F is a tad on the cool side, which could be slowing down the carbonation process. Most ale yeasts don't like to ferment quickly at that temp, so they're not going to carbonate quickly either. I would try to get them somewhere closer to ~70°F if at all possible, and let them sit a few more weeks.

Lack of yeast should not be an issue, even with a few days cold crash.

 

[guitarguy6]

I moved them upstairs in my house where they should be around 70f. I'll let them sit for a couples weeks and try one. I was just wondering if the cold crashing was the issue. Thanks