StickWaver
Member
Hey all,
Recently brewed up a 80 shilling Scottish Ale from Palmer's "Brewing Classic Styles", bottled it on March 17th. I've also been trying out Northern Brewer's iBrewmaster iPad app to keep track of everything; before this batch, everything has been smooth sailing.
Problem is, in this batch - when I followed the carb calculator, it left me with flat beer; it's sadder in the fact that the brew is really my best ever. Great taste, no off flavors... just flat.
So, in short (too late!) - I have two questions:
1. Did I misread/misuse the carb calculator (I've attached a pic) and add too little priming sugar? [Ok, in hindsight - of course I added too little sugar; I'm interested in learning how I did wrong so I don't again.]
2. Can I fix this by adding a carb tab to each bottle? I know that this runs the risk of overcarbing, but I can live with that.
Thoughts?
Recently brewed up a 80 shilling Scottish Ale from Palmer's "Brewing Classic Styles", bottled it on March 17th. I've also been trying out Northern Brewer's iBrewmaster iPad app to keep track of everything; before this batch, everything has been smooth sailing.
Problem is, in this batch - when I followed the carb calculator, it left me with flat beer; it's sadder in the fact that the brew is really my best ever. Great taste, no off flavors... just flat.
So, in short (too late!) - I have two questions:
1. Did I misread/misuse the carb calculator (I've attached a pic) and add too little priming sugar? [Ok, in hindsight - of course I added too little sugar; I'm interested in learning how I did wrong so I don't again.]
2. Can I fix this by adding a carb tab to each bottle? I know that this runs the risk of overcarbing, but I can live with that.
Thoughts?