Poor carbination on watermelon wheat...

[cantputt87]

I brewed a watermelon wheat batch a while back its been in bottles for about 3 weeks. I popped the first couple tonight and they have hardly any carbination. I added the usual amount of priming sugar as i have on all my other batches. Would letting it conditionn in bottles a while longer help??

Thanks

 

[ChessRockwell]

Would letting it conditionn in bottles a while longer help??

Quite possibly! Some take longer than others. A low abv wheat shouldn't NORMALLY take too long, but you really don't have too many other options I guess! Give it another 1-2 weeks and if it isn't better, you probably messed something up
Also, try giving it a couple days in the fridge before drinking (instead of 45 minutes in the freezer like I often do)

 

[mjtski]

Did you secondary? If yes, for how long? After a certain amount of time your yeast can age out and you either need to force carb or add more yeast before bottle conditioning.

 

[dogbar]

If the ones you sampled were the last ones bottled, try one of the first instead. Could be a priming sugar mixing problem.

Otherwise just wait. Maybe move the bottles someplace a little warmer of you can.

 

[cantputt87]

it was in secondary for 2 weeks its just now starting to carbinate

 

[yancydc]

What's the temp where you're storing the bottles? If it's below 70 or so, carbing could take a long time.