My have screwed up priming process

[lowb909]

Hello!...back to home brewing after a 18 year hiatus!

I just bottled an IPA extract recipe I did up myself and everything went great... did the bottling a couple of nights ago and was feeling pretty good about the whole thing till I tasted the little bit that was left over in the carboy after we got done bottling. It was sweet, much more so than what I tasted after doing the FG measurement before I primed and transferred to the carboy.

To prime, I did about 4.75 oz of corn sugar into a little bit of water and got it to a boil, then let it cool for a minute, then dumped it into the empty glass carboy. After siphoning into the carboy I forgot to give it a gentle stir to mix the priming sugar, but figured the transfer on top of it probably did the job... until I tasted what was left over.

Now I'm thinking there's going to be a very uneven distribution of the priming sugar, or maybe too flat. Really too bad because it seemed to have great potential going in the bottle.

Should I be worried. Can't think of anything to do at this point but chalk it up as a rookie mistake.

 

[unionrdr]

nothing to do now but wait & see how even it is. If you had the racking tube curved half way round the bottom it'd swirl the beer & priming solution together.

 

[sweetcell]

if you're certain that all/most of the sugar was left in the bottling bucket, you could: make up a sugar solution, uncap the bottles, add a few drops, then re-cap. would require you to use twice as many caps (don't re-use the old ones). it would be a complete crap-shoot though so i'm not sure how advisable this is. best to just a little to boost what's there. your bottles might not have gotten a full dose of sugar, but *some* got into solution (especially in the later bottles, i would think). so by adding just a little more sugar, hopefully you'll being it up closer to where it need to be. if you do this quickly, shortly after having done the original priming, the yeast might not have woken up yet and will not yet have consumed the initial priming sugar.

or, better yet, chalk it up as a rookie mistake. tell your friends that it's an english style and that it's supposed to have very little carbonation

 

[cheezydemon3]

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It should be fine. If the sugar was even partly dissolved, the swirling beer WOULD have mixed it. NEVER stir.

Relax! Uncarbed beer often tastes sweet and lacks bitterness.

 

[duboman]

Chalk it up!

One note of caution: Some bottles may in fact be over carbonated or possibly explode if they got too much sugar. While you wait for them to carbonate you might want to place them in a covered tub out of harms way.

 

[TipsyDragon]

Your beer will be fine. You added sugar and didn't expect it to be sweeter? There isn't much you can do about it now anyway. RDWHAHB.

This is a common panic for new brewers. If you add more sugar to each bottle you risk bottle bombs. Leave them alone for 2-3 weeks from bottling day.

 

[flars]

Hello!...back to home brewing after a 18 year hiatus!

I just bottled an IPA extract recipe I did up myself and everything went great... did the bottling a couple of nights ago and was feeling pretty good about the whole thing till I tasted the little bit that was left over in the carboy after we got done bottling. It was sweet, much more so than what I tasted after doing the FG measurement before I primed and transferred to the carboy.

To prime, I did about 4.75 oz of corn sugar into a little bit of water and got it to a boil, then let it cool for a minute, then dumped it into the empty glass carboy. After siphoning into the carboy I forgot to give it a gentle stir to mix the priming sugar, but figured the transfer on top of it probably did the job... until I tasted what was left over.

Now I'm thinking there's going to be a very uneven distribution of the priming sugar, or maybe too flat. Really too bad because it seemed to have great potential going in the bottle.

Should I be worried. Can't think of anything to do at this point but chalk it up as a rookie mistake.

I always drink the four or five ounces that remain in the bottling bucket. It is sweet and masking the flavor the final hydrometer sample had. It is the beer I brewed so I drink it anyway. I've tasted worse and those were on the shelf for sale.

Don't worry.

 

[gmdavestevens]

When I did my first batch, I forgot to close the valve on the bottom of my bottling bucket. I poured the priming solution first, but when I racked the beer from the fermenter to the bottling bucket, I was afraid that I lost half of my priming solution to the floor. All I did was RDWHAHB. Everything turned out fine.

 

[lowb909]

I always drink the four or five ounces that remain in the bottling bucket. It is sweet and masking the flavor the final hydrometer sample had. It is the beer I brewed so I drink it anyway. I've tasted worse and those were on the shelf for sale.

Don't worry.

Cool...thanks for the reassurance. I'm just going to leave it and see what happens... but I will cover the cases with a heavy towel.