G'day,
I've been brewing kits for about 2 years now and only just started to get more adventurous. I tried culturing the yeast from a Coopers Sparkling Ale king brown to pitch into my brew. All went well for primary ferementation with SG dropping to 1010 and bubbling in the airlock.
I tried a secondary fermentation for the first time by racking the brew into another fermenter and leaving it for around 7 days (at about 16 degC).
When I bottled into stubbies, I tried 30 with 6g of dextrose and 30 with 3g of sucrose priming sugar. I then left these for 3 weeks.
Upon opening one of each (ie one primed with dextrose, one primed with sucrose) I was shocked to see absolutely no bubbles at all in either. And the beer was sickly sweet. I have had this experience before when priming with dextrose, but not with sucrose.
Does my lack of carbonation have something to do with the secondary fermentation, and there not being enough yeast in each bottle to produce carbonation? or is it to do with the way I cultured the yeast? Maybe my yeast died? Or is it someting else?
Any ideas? has this happened to anyone else?
WesWeasel
I've been brewing kits for about 2 years now and only just started to get more adventurous. I tried culturing the yeast from a Coopers Sparkling Ale king brown to pitch into my brew. All went well for primary ferementation with SG dropping to 1010 and bubbling in the airlock.
I tried a secondary fermentation for the first time by racking the brew into another fermenter and leaving it for around 7 days (at about 16 degC).
When I bottled into stubbies, I tried 30 with 6g of dextrose and 30 with 3g of sucrose priming sugar. I then left these for 3 weeks.
Upon opening one of each (ie one primed with dextrose, one primed with sucrose) I was shocked to see absolutely no bubbles at all in either. And the beer was sickly sweet. I have had this experience before when priming with dextrose, but not with sucrose.
Does my lack of carbonation have something to do with the secondary fermentation, and there not being enough yeast in each bottle to produce carbonation? or is it to do with the way I cultured the yeast? Maybe my yeast died? Or is it someting else?
Any ideas? has this happened to anyone else?
WesWeasel