I brewed an Imperial Stout with 1/3 grain bill being Honey for a local Homebrew competition under BJCP Style 31B (Alternate Fermentable).
I've been kegging my beers for quite some time now, but for various reasons decided to bottle this batch instead of keg, force carb, and then bottle off the keg for the contest submission.
Knowing Honey is notoriously difficult to estimate fermentable sugars and carb volumes, I used 4.2 oz instead of the BS calculated 3.8 oz honey in my priming solution.
After two weeks at between 68-70*F we popped two samples and there is a faint hiss when we pop the top, but the beer is essentially flat.
For the contest it's too late to do anything as submissions are due by this Wednesday, but for the 2 cases of 22oz bottles I am splitting with the friend who approached me to co-brew for the contest I am trying to figure out what to do next.
Should I:
1) raise temp to 72* and let em ride for a couple more weeks
2) pop the tops of all the bottles and add a small amount of a dextrose based solution to each bottle and recap
3) Shroud a keg in CO2, pour contents of all bottles gently into keg, force carb, and then bottle my friend's half
4)RDWHAHB
The base beer itself is really quite good and would benefit greatly from proper carbonation. We opened one bomber and force carbonated a sample using a SodaStream. The carbonation made a big difference.
I've been kegging my beers for quite some time now, but for various reasons decided to bottle this batch instead of keg, force carb, and then bottle off the keg for the contest submission.
Knowing Honey is notoriously difficult to estimate fermentable sugars and carb volumes, I used 4.2 oz instead of the BS calculated 3.8 oz honey in my priming solution.
After two weeks at between 68-70*F we popped two samples and there is a faint hiss when we pop the top, but the beer is essentially flat.
For the contest it's too late to do anything as submissions are due by this Wednesday, but for the 2 cases of 22oz bottles I am splitting with the friend who approached me to co-brew for the contest I am trying to figure out what to do next.
Should I:
1) raise temp to 72* and let em ride for a couple more weeks
2) pop the tops of all the bottles and add a small amount of a dextrose based solution to each bottle and recap
3) Shroud a keg in CO2, pour contents of all bottles gently into keg, force carb, and then bottle my friend's half
4)RDWHAHB
The base beer itself is really quite good and would benefit greatly from proper carbonation. We opened one bomber and force carbonated a sample using a SodaStream. The carbonation made a big difference.