PurpleHaze
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Well I think it must be the temperature thats killing me..Rocker1986 said:If it's only 15-19 during the day it must be dropping pretty low overnight? The bottles may be dropping too low overnight and not warming up again. I had this issue with a couple of batches of ale a few years ago and decided not to bother with them over the colder months again, for that reason.
If that's what has been happening you could gently invert the bottles a few times to stir up the yeast sediment and try to warm them up to 18C+ somehow.
To carbonate in bottles, you need four things:
If you're missing one or more of these, the beer won't carbonate.
- Adequate amount of yeast (shouldn't be too hard straight after primary fermentation)
- Warm enough temp for yeast to work
- Adequate priming sugar
- Airtight seal on the bottles
Because I used Priming sugar measured out properly and then bottled and capped them with a (bottle capper.. I don't know what its actually called but it cost me 50 bux.. so not with a hammer)
Hopefully time and some sort of temp improvement can save them from being too flat.. I was thinking of trying to insulate a large plastic container.. with foam and maybe some sort of heat wrap?
I'll definitely invert them as well! I noticed the difference after shaking a few to get the yeast/priming sugar fermenting..
Hence I think I'll follow your lead and leave the ales for summer and get started on making a Kronenberg Lager!! Right now!