It's about 70 degrees or so in my house. They are just sitting on the floor in the spare room.
I'll be honest. about a week ago, I placed all of the bottles in a 95 degree bathtub to try to get the yeast moving again. Then I swirled up the bottles.
Still nothing. I'll leave them for another could weeks.
But if there's still nothing, What should I do?
Thanks
Is there any carbonation at all? I would avoid the re-yeasting option at almost all cost. It will oxidise the hell out of your beer.
I had this with an Imperial Stout a couple of years ago. The big beers are pretty sluggish when it comes to carbonation. I'd had mine carbing for 3 months and still nothing. Find the warmest spot in your house and keep them there for a couple of weeks. That's what i did, and it worked.
I'll never forget the moment when we finally opened one of those bottles of Impy and it was beautifally carbed. To this day, it's the best beer I've ever made.
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You could get some dry yeast and new bottle caps. Rehydrate the dry yeast. Take the caps off, using a sanitary eye dropper put a few drops of the yeast solution, then re-cap the bottles.
But in reality it sounds like you need patience. If you added fresh yeast and sugar a bottling, it may just take time for all of it to work together.
I only added the amount of priming sugar called for, per the calculators online.
I did not add any additional yeast.
I bottled on December 11th. As of yesterday, there was still ZERO carbonation. I'm going to wait until about January 11th. If there is still nothing by then, I think I may try adding some yeast.
I once had a beer not carbonate. After deciding to add a few sprinkles of dry US-05 yeast to each bottle, it ruined the beer. I ended up with gushers that tasted like cloves in an American Pale Ale, as well as yeast stuck in the neck of the bottles. Somehow something probably got infected during the process. If I were to try it again, I would try Corky's advice to rehydrate then add a drop to each bottle with a dropper. But if I ever bottled a batch that didn't carbonate again, I think I would just brew another batch of the same beer and pour half of each in a glass when I drank them. Or cook with them. Would be better than the drainpour I ended up with.
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I only added the amount of priming sugar called for, per the calculators online.
I did not add any additional yeast.
I bottled on December 11th. As of yesterday, there was still ZERO carbonation. I'm going to wait until about January 11th. If there is still nothing by then, I think I may try adding some yeast.
If you can put a space heater in the room they are in and kick it up to about 80-85 in that room and leave them like that for at least another month before you try adding more yeast and possibly ruining a perfectly good beer.
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If you can put a space heater in the room they are in and kick it up to about 80-85 in that room and leave them like that for at least another month before you try adding more yeast and possibly ruining a perfectly good beer.
He may have to sell the beer to pay the electric bill. More yeast won't ruin the beer, but 85F won't help the flavor.
Well the beer did finally carbonate. But I have bad news. I think it has an infection. It's soda pop fizzy. Pours brown. And doesn't taste good at all.
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