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Hello All--
I've done my best searching the forum for a direct answer to this question...
I'm fairly new to brewing, with 5 AG batches under my belt. I went straight to kegging right away, and have been happy with the results.
This last batch I decided to brew the Stone Vertical Epic 020202 clone (recipe on Stone's website).
I kegged 3/4 of it, and bottled the rest (for aging purposes), adding sucrose (amount calculated using beer reciprocator) to each bottle.
So, the question is (assuming I added an appropriate amount of priming suger) should I be seeing a krausen in the bottle, or any sign of activity what-so-ever? It's been 4 days and I've seen no sign of any life. Since I've never bottled I don't know what to expect, but have seen some posts aluding to krausen activity in the bottle. Just wondering if lack of such activity is diagnostic for lack of bottle self-carbing.
Beer was brewed as per Stone's specifications. My OG was 1.076 and FG 1.012. I didn't add fresh yeast, but assumed there was enough yeast in solution to do the job (WLP 400). Fermented at 71 deg. Bottles now at room temp (73F).
BTW, kegged version is already carb'd and freakin' awesome. Strong stuff though at 8.4% ABV, which was expected. Should age nicely.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Mike
I've done my best searching the forum for a direct answer to this question...
I'm fairly new to brewing, with 5 AG batches under my belt. I went straight to kegging right away, and have been happy with the results.
This last batch I decided to brew the Stone Vertical Epic 020202 clone (recipe on Stone's website).
I kegged 3/4 of it, and bottled the rest (for aging purposes), adding sucrose (amount calculated using beer reciprocator) to each bottle.
So, the question is (assuming I added an appropriate amount of priming suger) should I be seeing a krausen in the bottle, or any sign of activity what-so-ever? It's been 4 days and I've seen no sign of any life. Since I've never bottled I don't know what to expect, but have seen some posts aluding to krausen activity in the bottle. Just wondering if lack of such activity is diagnostic for lack of bottle self-carbing.
Beer was brewed as per Stone's specifications. My OG was 1.076 and FG 1.012. I didn't add fresh yeast, but assumed there was enough yeast in solution to do the job (WLP 400). Fermented at 71 deg. Bottles now at room temp (73F).
BTW, kegged version is already carb'd and freakin' awesome. Strong stuff though at 8.4% ABV, which was expected. Should age nicely.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Mike