Greg Howard
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Hi could I get some insight into conditioning beer .
After 2ndary fermenting a Pilsener bottled the beer and used the standard carb drops (two for a tally) then thought I have a week before the next batch goes into the ferm fridge so decided to lager the pilsener for a week at 4 deg.
The result is the beer is flat. :angry:
So what goes on when you use the carb drops ? Are these small amounts of suger food for residual yeast. If this is the case should the bottles at room temp eventually wake the the existing yeast and once woken begin to feed on the suger disolved in the bottle from the carb drop and create bubbles?
Or are they carbonation drops like they say on the label and as they melt create co2 thus bubbles?
So here is my plan of attack give the existing bottles a week and crack one to see the result , If dead flat still look at an alternative method of carbonation , method one open all the bottles and chuck in another carb drop . Havent come up with method two yet .
What are your thoughts
Cheers
After 2ndary fermenting a Pilsener bottled the beer and used the standard carb drops (two for a tally) then thought I have a week before the next batch goes into the ferm fridge so decided to lager the pilsener for a week at 4 deg.
The result is the beer is flat. :angry:
So what goes on when you use the carb drops ? Are these small amounts of suger food for residual yeast. If this is the case should the bottles at room temp eventually wake the the existing yeast and once woken begin to feed on the suger disolved in the bottle from the carb drop and create bubbles?
Or are they carbonation drops like they say on the label and as they melt create co2 thus bubbles?
So here is my plan of attack give the existing bottles a week and crack one to see the result , If dead flat still look at an alternative method of carbonation , method one open all the bottles and chuck in another carb drop . Havent come up with method two yet .
What are your thoughts
Cheers