woozy
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Five weeks ago I bottled a batch of California Common and I carbonated half with carbonation tabs and half I didn't carbonate at all (no priming sugar at all).
So the first two were utterly flat so I figured I had forgotten the sugar for all of them. So I pull them out. I open one on toss in a carbonation drop. The beer foams up and pours over the side and dribbles onto the floor. Okay.... So I open a second and pour a tiny bit into a glass. It bubbles and carbonates. Then I remember... oh, yeah, I had put tabs in half but at the time I hadd gotten fuddled and thought I might have not put them in the second.
So, puzzle solvers. How do I tell which bottles have and haven't been carbonated and how do I carbonate the un-carbonated ones?
[Jeez, I am *not* having a good week. Seems like my first five batches have gone off without a hitch, but my second five have just been cluster-effed from the start.]
So the first two were utterly flat so I figured I had forgotten the sugar for all of them. So I pull them out. I open one on toss in a carbonation drop. The beer foams up and pours over the side and dribbles onto the floor. Okay.... So I open a second and pour a tiny bit into a glass. It bubbles and carbonates. Then I remember... oh, yeah, I had put tabs in half but at the time I hadd gotten fuddled and thought I might have not put them in the second.
So, puzzle solvers. How do I tell which bottles have and haven't been carbonated and how do I carbonate the un-carbonated ones?
[Jeez, I am *not* having a good week. Seems like my first five batches have gone off without a hitch, but my second five have just been cluster-effed from the start.]