Porter not carbonating in the bottle

[cmoewes]

Quick intro, I'm fairly new at home-brewing just started last fall. I doing all-grain , 1 gallon batches and having a lot of fun. So far I've done about 15 batches of beer (ok 17 but the first 2 don't count).

Now, to my question. I have twice brewed a porter recipe from BYO magazine (the 1744 porter from December 2013 issue) and both time the bottles have failed to carbonate. All my other batches have carbed up very nicely after adding the priming sugar to the bottling bucket, but oddly the porters didn't.

Is this just a coincidence? Or is there something particular about the porter?

 

[Pappers_]

Am not familiar with that recipe - is it particularly big (high abv)? One possibility is that you just haven't waited long enough. While 2 weeks is usually enough time for my beers to bottle carbonate, sometimes it takes more than a month, especially big beers.

 

[Hello]

Is this the recipe or close to it? It's the 1744 Porter in the December 2013 issue that someone seems to shared on another site.
http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/90668/1744-historical-baltic-porter-

Are you remembering the priming sugar? I realize that's an odd question. How long have you let them sit at room temp to carbonate?

 

[cmoewes]

Yeah, that is the recipe though my gravity was lower (1.058).

I forgot the priming sugar in one of my very first batches (the 2 I don't count).

I keep all my bottled beers in my basement laundry room which is a balmy 57 degrees so maybe that's too cool, but all my beers are in there and only the Porter (x2) have even not carbonated.

Maybe it's just an excuse to make it again

 

[cmoewes]

I guess I could have posted the recipe.. here goes

BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: 1744 Porter II
Brewer:
Asst Brewer:
Style: Robust Porter
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (30.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 2.50 gal
Post Boil Volume: 1.50 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 1.50 gal
Bottling Volume: 1.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.061 SG
Estimated Color: 28.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 36.3 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 68.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 68.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
2.90 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 76.3 %
0.45 lb Amber Malt (22.0 SRM) Grain 2 11.8 %
0.30 lb Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) Grain 3 7.9 %
0.15 lb Black (Patent) Malt (500.0 SRM) Grain 4 3.9 %
0.20 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Boil 60. Hop 5 36.3 IBUs
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 6 -
1.0 pkg British Ale (White Labs #WLP005) [35.49 Yeast 7 -


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 3.80 lb
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 23.90 Cup of water at 161.3 F 152.0 F 60 min

Sparge: Batch sparge with 3 steps (Drain mash tun , 0.82gal, 0.82gal) of 168.0 F water
Notes:
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[aiptasia]

Time and temperature. Move the bottles to a warmer location and wait a few more weeks.

 

[Pappers_]

57F is way too cold to bottle carb. The yeast are already tired out from doing their work during fermentation, now you're asking them to do some more work, in an alcoholic environment they don't like, at a temperature that puts them to sleep. Move them into the warmest spot in the home you can find.

 

[dyqik]

What level of carbonation are you aiming for? The style appropriate carb level for robust porter can be really low - down to about 1.2 vols (the recipe upthread is a higher 2.2 vols). At 1.2 vols it should only just barely froth or form a head when poured directly from the fridge.

 

[cmoewes]

What level of carbonation are you aiming for? The style appropriate carb level for robust porter can be really low - down to about 1.2 vols (the recipe upthread is a higher 2.2 vols). At 1.2 vols it should only just barely froth or form a head when poured directly from the fridge.

Maybe I am inadvertently getting style-appropriate carbonation level.

I'm lining up my next few batches so I'll have to adjust that when I brew this again.