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no bubbles in lager.|????
Posted: Tuesday Jun 16, 2009 11:37 pm
by Adamsale
just made a tooheys dry lager kit with 1Kg of dextrose but used saflager S-23 yeast instead of kit one. Fermented in 7 days. (SG 1035 FG 1009). bottled as usual and after 1 week opened a bottle as usual to see if fermented, but no fizz at all.???
Question is, if all yeast sank to bottom of fermenter then bottled, would the sugar cubes/carbonation drops still/should make beer fizzy.????
Re: no bubbles in lager.|????
Posted: Wednesday Jun 17, 2009 7:40 am
by warra48
Adamsale wrote:just made a tooheys dry lager kit with 1Kg of dextrose but used saflager S-23 yeast instead of kit one. Fermented in 7 days. (SG 1035 FG 1009). bottled as usual and after 1 week opened a bottle as usual to see if fermented, but no fizz at all.???
Question is, if all yeast sank to bottom of fermenter then bottled, would the sugar cubes/carbonation drops still/should make beer fizzy.????
You are a bit quick off the mark. Patience is said to be a virtue. I know it's hard to wait, but your beer will improve if you can leave it in peace for some weeks.
It's cold at present, and if your beers are at ambient winter temperature, they'll take at least 3 to 4 weeks minimum to carbonate.
If you can move your beers to where it's around 20ºC steady temperature, you should be carbed up in about 2 weeks.
There will be enough yeast left in suspension to carbonate your beer, even if it all seems to have settled in the bottom of the fermenter.
I brewed a Mild in April, and bottled it 5 weeks ago. It's only just now starting to carbonate.