OrdinaryAvgGuy
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Brewed an ale a few months ago. Cold crashed about a week @35 or so degrees. Bottles with 4.5 oz or so of corn sugar.
3 weeks later, beer is flat - just a slight psssft and absolutely no carbonation. Let sit for perhaps 3 months and still no carb.
Thinking I somehow screwed up and forgot to add sugar, I experimented by adding 2.2g corn sugar to each of 3 bottles. Capped with new caps to eliminate possibility of faulty caps. Almost 3 weeks later still absolutely no sign of carbonation when I popped the top on one. Again, just a short pssft and no bubbles.
Brewed with us-05 or the white labs equivalent wp001
stepped up with starter.
I'm thinking that cold crashing for a week killed all the yeast, but can't figure out how in such a short period of time .
Any suggestions or other possibilities? What steps should I take next? Thanks.
3 weeks later, beer is flat - just a slight psssft and absolutely no carbonation. Let sit for perhaps 3 months and still no carb.
Thinking I somehow screwed up and forgot to add sugar, I experimented by adding 2.2g corn sugar to each of 3 bottles. Capped with new caps to eliminate possibility of faulty caps. Almost 3 weeks later still absolutely no sign of carbonation when I popped the top on one. Again, just a short pssft and no bubbles.
Brewed with us-05 or the white labs equivalent wp001
stepped up with starter.
I'm thinking that cold crashing for a week killed all the yeast, but can't figure out how in such a short period of time .
Any suggestions or other possibilities? What steps should I take next? Thanks.
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