Teufelhunde
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Ok, so here's the deal. The below picture is a bottle from a batch that was bottled 14 days ago. At six days in the bottle, I accidently grabbed one and put it in the fridge with my daily allotment When I saw that it was not what I thought it was I said, what the heck, it's been six days, I'll go ahead and try it. It was totally flat.
So, at 14 days, it appears I have a small foam cap on it. I cracked one today and there was a pressure release when the seal was broken, but not as much as I would expect, so it appears that I just have a slow carbonation happening. My question is, has anyone else ever had it take this long? What might have caused it? I normally bottle at 3-4 weeks in primary, but life got in the way on this one and it sat in primary for 6.5 weeks. Could the yeast have started to die off, so that when presented with more sugar it took them a while to build their numbers back up?
Thanks for any input or suggestions.
Lon
So, at 14 days, it appears I have a small foam cap on it. I cracked one today and there was a pressure release when the seal was broken, but not as much as I would expect, so it appears that I just have a slow carbonation happening. My question is, has anyone else ever had it take this long? What might have caused it? I normally bottle at 3-4 weeks in primary, but life got in the way on this one and it sat in primary for 6.5 weeks. Could the yeast have started to die off, so that when presented with more sugar it took them a while to build their numbers back up?
Thanks for any input or suggestions.
Lon