Uneven Carb

[Warboys]

What would/could cause an uneven carb? I just tried a six back of my 2nd batch of homebrew and this batch produced 2 beers that were very (but still good) carbonated while the remaining four were slightly carbed. The first two were very carbed with a good head (think Sprite) while the remaining four were still good, but more flat like. What gives? The entire batch was treated/made the same and I can't see any visual difference between the bottles.


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[uatuba]

What is your priming process?


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[freisste]

Did you batch prime (mix sugar into the entire batch at once, probably in the bottling bucket) or prime bottle by bottle? If the latter, you probably didn't prime evenly. If you did the former, you either still got an uneven mix or you just didn't wait long enough and the rest of the bottles will carb better if given the chance. How long ago did you bottle and what temperature are you storing them at? And what kind of a brew is it?

 

[peterj]

Did you mix the priming sugar in well? Sounds like it wasn't distributed evenly.

 

[fleeba409]

i forgot to mix the priming sugar in my dubbel last fall. some of the bottles are barely carbed, some perfectly, and i am still wiping a few of them off the ceiling.

 

[thegreatmaibockaddict]

Transfer beer onto priming sugar solution and problem solved.

 

[Warboys]

It is a basic pale ale extract kit from MoreBeer. I used 4 oz of corn sugar, but I added it after transferring the beer to the bottling bucket. All six of the beers sampled today were stored in the same location and treated in the same way. All in all I just found it odd that the first two were 105% carbed but the remaining four were only 75%.


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[Col_klink]

I had some issues with consistent carbonation. I started gently stirring the beer in the bottling bucket to make sure the priming solution was evenly mixed in. That solved my inconsistency issues.

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[uatuba]

You need to dissolve the sugar in boiling water before adding the solution to the bottling bucket. I siphon the beer onto the solution by placing the hose in a curved path, half of the circumference of the bucket. This causes a gentle whirlpool and will evenly mix the priming sugar without fear of oxidation.

Also, make sure you have the bottles at 39* or lower for at least three days (a week is better) to ensure that the CO2 dissolves into the beer and doesn't stay in the head space.


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[whoaru99]

Yeah, bad mix can happen. On a previous batch for some reason I used only about a cup of water for the priming solution and that didn't get mixed in very well.

Some are flat, some have a little carb, some are about right. I'm guessing I'll find some in the mix that are real fizzy.