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Hey guys. I have a quick question about racking my beer to a secondary fermentor and/or bottling bucket. When last I posted on here I was having some issues with my beers carb'ing up (you can read all about it in this thread).Since then, I've brewed one batch (a saison about 4.5% and bottled...

I'm in Northern California (we have mountains too ;) ) And yeah, this time they all went through the dishwasher like they did the first two times. I hand brushed with dish soap and rinsed by hand before putting them in for a short rinse cycle on Sanitize Mode using no detergent or rinse aids...

So, I'm right about that time again where I should be drinking beautifully carbed up home brew aaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnddddd......My most recent batch hasn't carbed. I was super careful this time in measuring my priming sugar, adding it to he bucket first, stirring after I added the beer and...

Second batch. First one was 100% carb'd. I use this:

can you even do that?

So, it's been months, I check each week and the beer is still flat. I'm bottling a IIPA tomorrow and I find myself short of bottles so I figure I'll just dump the rest of my 22's. And, just as I expected they're all flat....except for the very last one! It was perfectly carb'd and it was at room...

So here's a question that I may have forced an answer too. The recipe I'm following says rack to secondary 1-2 weeks into fermentation. However, this being the hot button issue it seems like, nearly every home brewer I talk to says that a) I don't need to do this and b) it could potentially...

Thanks guys....perhaps I was feeling a little melodramatic last night? Anyway, the beer is happily bubbling away in the back of my closet now....and at the very least this batch will now be known as the Slippery Bunghole. Hahaha! Thanks again.

So, there I am...I have just finished by 3rd batch. Grabbed a sample, I'm confident everything is clean, the smell is amazing. All I need to do is put the airlock on and stash it away and in a few weeks, I should have some amazing IIPA. Wait a second....the bung won't stay put. Try as I...

I'll check the caps but its same bag I used the first time...plain gold caps from Northern brewer, capped with this. Exact same setup and procedure as my first batch and those carb'd up just fine.

Yeah, but that is what concerns me the most....it's pretty much exactly the same as it was a month ago. A tiny escape of pressure and the barest hint of a carbonation tingle.

Thanks Revvy, I had read your other posts about this situation (where you said exactly the same thing) but being a newb I just wanted to be sure. I'll stash it out of the way, move on to my next batch and revisit it in a month or so. And to answer other questions from above...as I said twice...

Nope, never use any of that crap....just plain old fashioned hippie soap that my wife buys. But I didn't use any soap when I sanitized them.

I used wyeast 1056 and I propagated it twice which according to http://www.yeastcalc.com should have given me 324 billion cells to play with. I was under the impression that 1056 could easily handle a beer with this abv. Also, the beer spent 10 more days in primary than the recipe called...

Okay, I know there are lots of Flat Beer threads and I've read quite a few of them but I'm starting to loose hope here. This is my second batch, a Scotch Ale, and it's been in the bottle for 51 days and it's still flat. I'm sure I primed it properly. 5 oz of Corn sugar (maybe a little less...

Got my first batch bubbling away as I type. Looking forward to learning more, this site is HUGE.....now, where to start?