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After 2 weeks (I'm impatient! ) I opened a Little Creature PA clone but..

Its bloody flat!!

Now I don't think I would have forgotten to prime the bottles.. (I hope!)

So what else could cause it not to carbonate?

I had the stored in the dark at about 18-20 degrees.


I have opened one and re-primed and capped again to see what happenes.. But I'm bummed cause was really looking forward to this beer..

In an ideal world you may have carbonation after 2 weeks at 18 to 20 degrees. Unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world and there are lots of variables to take into account.

You say that you have left th bottles at 18 to 20 degrees, but what temp. does the storeage facility fall to of a night? I would wait another couple of weeks minimum to see what is happening and also, watch out for the bottle that you primed again as you could have a hand grenade.

basically, the longer you wait the better the beer. I know this is hard when you really, really, really want to try the beer, but remember that everything good comes to he who waits.

I know I have said it before, but brew is best left to mature in the bottle for as long as possible. I don't touch my brew unless it's been bottled for a minimum of 3 months and it is definately worth the wait.

I dont know the exact temp but it floats around 18-20.. prob drops at night a little but have storred other bottles in the same spot and they are fine. thats why I am a little concerned..

On your advice, I will put the "re-primed" bottle out in the shed..

Nothing to add to this thread other than "Hear, Hear" To Wassa's very sage advice.

DJ, I ferment my beers at 18-20C but always give them 3-5 days at 25C for secondary fermentation. I had a CUB special brew a couple of years ago and the tasting notes said that it had been secondary fermented at 28C.

DJ wrote:After 2 weeks (I'm impatient! ) I opened a Little Creature PA clone but..

Its bloody flat!!

Now I don't think I would have forgotten to prime the bottles.. (I hope!)

Maybe its one bottle you missed when priming.I have missed a couple in the past.

Well its been a month since I put it down so I thought I would try one to see if we had bubbles and guess what??

BUBBLES!!

YAY!!


So I need to be more patient and take the advice.....

DON'T WORRY!

Enjoy DJ.

A question for future refernce if Itook the beers out of the warmth too early and into the fridge, can I simply remove and put back into the warmth? Will 2ndry recommence once it warms?

nadrum wrote:Will 2ndry recommence once it warms?

If you mean will carbonation recommence, then the answer is yes. So long as you haven't frozen the buggers they should wake up and start chewing up the sugars again.

cheers rwh - good to know for if/when I become too impatient

Best advice i can add is never get to impatient i mean lets face it the stuff takes us long enough to brew, whats another couple of weeks to get it right. I have noticed with any one i talk to that most if not all mistakes that are made with brewing come from brewers being to impatient!!
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE

words of wisdom.