I did it once before, a long time ago, and I'm sure it worked fine. My beer is not flat, it's just not as carbed as I'd like, but I'll be patient because experience tells me carbonation can increase over quite a long period of time.
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MyQul
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All the sugar granueles create little nucleation points, similiar to a nucleated pint glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint_glass#Nucleated_pint_glasses
Time, the great brew healer. Opened another brown ale, 26 days in the bottle, and now nicely carbed. 1cm of foam. And this beer is superb, I love it. Minch lager malt, Crystal 40L, Crystal Rye, Wheat malt, Pale Chocolate, Brown sugar and a touch of Carafa III. With Cluster hops for 42 IBUs. This brown/amber/red kind of beer with strong hops is right up my street.
Well, the English hop version is now carbing up nicely and is completely transformed, it's fabulous - this batch I split into 4 brews is turning out to be great. 4 weeks in the bottle now, and the brown ale, English hop and Amarillo versions have all come good. I bottled the Citra batch a week later and haven't tasted it yet but it was the one that tasted good at bottling time so high hopes. Some of my beers are ready to go a week or two after bottling, some obviously need a month or so.
looks totally tremendous clibit,had a taste of my first gallon batch of ag and it was great not as good a head as yours tho but i may have opened a bit early gonna get some more on the go soon,10 litres next time as i got a big pot,cant wait cheers lagerlad
MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
What rate did you prime it at?
MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
Wow, 1.9g/L is super low. Surprised at the head you got on your beer in the piccy. Any reason you primed so low?
MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
Still quite low though. Not your normal priming rate I take it. I prime everything at 5g/L myself
I took drastic, experimental action last Friday when I decided these beers were not improvingand lacked bitterness and hop flavour, as well as carbonation being a bit low,still.
I decided to risk oxidation by emptying the bottles (as carefully as possible) into a bottling bucket, and adding a hop tea and priming sugar.
I ended up blending the Amarillo and Citra batches, and adding a hop tea made by boiling 10g of Centennial and 10g of Simcoe for 30 mins.
I blended the Cluster brown ale with the English hopped batch, and added a hop tea, 10g each of Challenger and Cascade boiled for 30 mins.
I've just had a bottle of the Amarillo Citra Centennial Simcoe which is about 4.5% I think, and wham, it's fantastic! Well carbed already, and fantastic hop flavour. Solid bitternrss, and foam all the way down the glass. I'm really chuffed. You can sometimes fix a beer that didn't go quite to plan.
I decided to risk oxidation by emptying the bottles (as carefully as possible) into a bottling bucket, and adding a hop tea and priming sugar.
I ended up blending the Amarillo and Citra batches, and adding a hop tea made by boiling 10g of Centennial and 10g of Simcoe for 30 mins.
I blended the Cluster brown ale with the English hopped batch, and added a hop tea, 10g each of Challenger and Cascade boiled for 30 mins.
I've just had a bottle of the Amarillo Citra Centennial Simcoe which is about 4.5% I think, and wham, it's fantastic! Well carbed already, and fantastic hop flavour. Solid bitternrss, and foam all the way down the glass. I'm really chuffed. You can sometimes fix a beer that didn't go quite to plan.
HebridesRob
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Good, glad it worked for you. Worth the risk if you didn't like what you had.
I wish I'd done similar with a batch I put into 2.5L PET bottles and emptied them into my barrel & re-primed. Not an experiment I'll repeat. Impossible to keep clear after pouring the first glass and the floppiness of the bottles is a pain.
I like the idea of a continuous thread for brew days, by the way. I'm going to copy.
Cheers Rob. I've just finished a bottle of the other one, which now has six hops! First Gold, EKG, Northdown, Cluster, Challenger abd Cascade. It's every bit as good as the other. The hop tea has made a colossal difference. And I wasn't sure about just boiling hops in water, but it's worked. Intense hop flavour and bitterness. No water treatment, but apparently not required! Two lowish ABV IPAs that are up there with my best efforts.
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Have topped up with hop tea in one or two of my brews, and it does make a difference, glad it worked out for you
I've used hop teas at bottling time before, but never opened up previously made bottles and added a hop tea. It worked better than I expected, total transformation. Bit of a faff, but it made 30 bottles of average beer into 30 bottles of really great beer. Chuffed!
Is beer yeast as forgiving as distillers yeast?
i could transfer a cpl mugfuls of lees from barrel to barrel to get a new batch of "beer" going for sour mash.
I bought 2 Lbs of distillers yeast online and only ever used 5 Tablespoons in 3 years
i could transfer a cpl mugfuls of lees from barrel to barrel to get a new batch of "beer" going for sour mash.
I bought 2 Lbs of distillers yeast online and only ever used 5 Tablespoons in 3 years
Tony1951
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It is surprising how tolerant beer is to being re-packaged. I've done it with my naturally carbonated, barrelled ales a few times when the keg has run out of co2 with about a gallon of beer left in the bottom. I have just opened the lid a bit and put clean, sugar dosed bottles under the tap, filled them up and put them away for a couple or three weeks. The beer was fantastic after - I like the sparkle of bottled beers. I think it can enhance the flavour.
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