Delay After Adding Priming Sugar

[jeremys]

Yesterday I bottled a strong stout (A RIS recipe, dialled down to 7.2%) but took about 90 minutes after adding the priming sugar to start bottling (I was brewing a pale ale at the same time and got distracted). I am wondering whether this will result in the beers being undercarbonated? Will the yeast have already started producing CO2 which will have escaped from my bottling bucket, or do I have nothing to worry about?

 

[mwd]

No worries 90 mins is nothing to be concerned about. It will take between a few days and 2 weeks for the beers to be fully carbed up depending on your storage temperatures.

 

[jeremys]

No worries 90 mins is nothing to be concerned about. It will take between a few days and 2 weeks for the beers to be fully carbed up depending on your storage temperatures.

I generally don't even bother tasting any of my brews until they've had at least 2 weeks in bottles and generally find them to be at their best after 4-12 weeks. I was just wondering whether the 90 minutes would be enough to make an appreciable difference in final carbonation level. If the yeast consume the sugars at a steady rate, then you're right and I've got nothing to worry about.

 

[MaltyHops]

I was just wondering whether the 90 minutes would be enough to make an
appreciable difference in final carbonation level.

It's my view that a 60 mins (& 90 mins I guess) delay makes pretty
much no difference to the final carbonation - that it's actually beneficial
to allow the priming sugar solution to mix well evenly with the beer
before being bottled.

Consider that if time required to carbonate fully is a week (most likely
longer) - that's a total of 168 hours and 90 mins is less than 1% of that
time and it usually takes yeast a short while to get their act together
and start farting anyway.

 

[jeremys]

It's my view that a 60 mins (& 90 mins I guess) delay makes pretty
much no difference to the final carbonation - that it's actually beneficial
to allow the priming sugar solution to mix well evenly with the beer
before being bottled.

Consider that if time required to carbonate fully is a week (most likely
longer) - that's a total of 168 hours and 90 mins is less than 1% of that
time and it usually takes yeast a short while to get their act together
and start farting anyway.

Good point, you two have put my mind at rest - thankyou!