A few weeks back I had posted a thread wondering why my Amber Ale, which I added vanilla root to, had never carbonated. I added the priming solution to my bottling bocket, just as I had before, but the beer never carbonated. Some suggested the priming solution might have not been mixed evenly, leading to some over carbonated bottles. However, none of the bottles I have opened had any carbonation at all. Still confused.
However, as an experiment, we added a couple of drops of honey to a bottle and recapped it. We opened it a couple of weeks later and, voilá: foam. I did notice that the beer now had additional sediment, somewhat "powdery" and did not look like suspended yeast. I'm thinking that was from the honey. Also, when my girlfriend added the honey as a trial, she didn't sanitize anything. So now I want to add sugar to the remaining bottles to have something that's drinkable.
I have about 45 bottles left. How should I prepare the priming solution and how should I distribute it to the bottles? I know this is not the ideal method, but transferring the beer back to a bottling bucket seems like a bad idea due to oxidation.
My intention, for sanitation and oxidation purposes, is to boil the priming solution, and then, for each bottle: open, quickly add priming solution in the proper dosage and quickly recap (with sanitized caps), then continue to the next bottle and so on.
What do you guys suggest?
However, as an experiment, we added a couple of drops of honey to a bottle and recapped it. We opened it a couple of weeks later and, voilá: foam. I did notice that the beer now had additional sediment, somewhat "powdery" and did not look like suspended yeast. I'm thinking that was from the honey. Also, when my girlfriend added the honey as a trial, she didn't sanitize anything. So now I want to add sugar to the remaining bottles to have something that's drinkable.
I have about 45 bottles left. How should I prepare the priming solution and how should I distribute it to the bottles? I know this is not the ideal method, but transferring the beer back to a bottling bucket seems like a bad idea due to oxidation.
My intention, for sanitation and oxidation purposes, is to boil the priming solution, and then, for each bottle: open, quickly add priming solution in the proper dosage and quickly recap (with sanitized caps), then continue to the next bottle and so on.
What do you guys suggest?