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I messed up the amount of priming sugar and my beer has not properly carbonated. Is there any safe way to reprime the beer? I was thinking of making a yeast starter and dumping all the beer back into a carboy and adding more priming sugar. I'm just worried about contamination. Is there hope or do i have to drink this batch flat?
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Re: carbonation
Tue, May 12, 2009 - 11:06 AMYou risk oxidation by dumping it back in and going again.
OTOH, you do not specify how long they have been bottled.
Probably need at least 2-3 weeks.
Is there sufficient viable yeast?
If so then I would boil some water, add more sugar and put
about a TBS or so into each bottle and recap them.
Also what temperature? Warmer is better in this case (say up to about 75 deg).
I would under no circumstances do the dump and re-prime.
LHBS's also sell carbonation tablets. Maybe that will work for you.
Happy Brewing, Trance -
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Re: carbonation
Wed, May 13, 2009 - 3:37 PMits been sitting since march so i don't think time is the issue. maybe ill try to add the sugar to the bottle. ill do it in a few bottles and see what happens. worse comes to worse, i drink it flat. -
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Re: carbonation
Wed, May 13, 2009 - 9:00 PMHow long did it ferment? How long in secondary?
Maybe all the yeast has settled and there is nothing left
to chew on the priming sugar to induce carbonation.
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Re: carbonation
Tue, May 12, 2009 - 6:11 PMgive it time
or drink it warm & flat, just like the cowboys did -
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Re: carbonation
Wed, May 13, 2009 - 6:33 AMOr freeze distill/concentrate it and pretend it's scotch ;-)
Did that with some mead the other day and BOOM!!!
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