Brew flat, any ideas?

[Hollow Legs]

Hi guys wondering if you can throw some light on my brew? Coopers Canadian Blonde, 1Kg brewing sugar, kit yeast, added yeast at 26deg C popped lid on (with airlock) and left for a week with a brewbelt around fermenter 24deg C, tested sg and around 1.0008 so tested next day sg 1.0008 so bottled priming 500ml pet bottle with 1 coopers carbonation tablet per bottle, the brew was completely clear though :wha: stored bottles at 20deg C for 5 days and then put in coolest room in the house 2 days ago, tried one this afternoon and it is flat as a witches mammary gland, a little psssst when opening the bottle (noise not me) but no fiz, now I know you supposed to leave it for 3 weeks or so but i'm an impatient man :nono: , now is this because I should have used 1.5 carb tabs?, I left it to ferment too long? or will it get carbonated with time?

The brew actually tastes okay, needs time to get there I think.

Thanks in advance Brew Buddies. :

Colin.

 

[GazOC]

Put them back in the warm, its doesn't sound like they have carbonated for long enough. I usually give mine a couple of weeks.

 

[Hollow Legs]

Thanks Gaz, will do.

 

[GazOC]

If you are using PET bottles make sure they are firm to the touch when you try yo squeeze them. That at least tells you theres pressure there... :

 

[donny_1972]

I would leave at least 6 weeks before you drink them. The instructions that comes with kits are rubbish.

 

[Hollow Legs]

I would leave at least 6 weeks before you drink them. The instructions that comes with kits are rubbish.

O.K. noted, thanks.

 

[philip5660]

Aye as much as like coopers stuff their instructions would have you believe that you'll be drinking great beer after a few days, it just takes longer. Minimum 10 days in the warm

 

[Hollow Legs]

Thanks guys, general consensus is to leave it in the warm a lot longer then, I moved it back to the airing cupboard this afternoon.

cheers :

Colin.

 

[luckyeddie]

In a couple of weeks I will have 80 bottles to condition. I've told the missus to think about moving the clothes out of the airing cupboard to make room. She says that if the clothes go, she goes.

WIN!!!

:rofl:

 

[Hollow Legs]

I've got 87 bottles in there at the moment as I bottled some Black Rock cider on Wednesday, and also my Canadian Blonde of course.
It's great this hobby, there is a heater in the airing cupboard that has needed fixing to the wall properly since we moved in four years ago, it got fixed the day I needed to put my home brew in it (funny that eh)

 

[luckyeddie]

I am sure, Hollow Legs, that it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the temperature in the airing cupdoard was below the optimum for your home brew.

Like at my house, where suddenly all the hoses which had needed new tap connectors and attachments for years suddenly got them one day after my wort chiller appeared on the scene, and the fact that the missus had been after a heating mat for her propagator for a year or so, then suddenly four arrived at once (only for three of them to disappear again five minutes later, suddenly to reappear a few days later beneath FVs).

Pure coincidence.

 

[Hollow Legs]

Lucky Eddie that is spookey, sends shivers down my spine. :whistle: :

 

[Hollow Legs]

Just an update, took a bottle out of the airing cupboard to see if there was any change (now been in there for 7 days) and there were bubbles and a sort of head, so thanks for the advise I will leave it for another week then try it.

Colin.

 

[muircockhall]

I put all my coopers lager into the fridge almost immediately after bottling, and left about a dozen out on the shelf as I ran out of space.
The ones in the fridge are flat and the ones on the shelves are fizzy.
I guessed that they were too cold, so they are now in the warm for a few more weeks.

Thanks for confirming it.
:thumb:

 

[Hollow Legs]

I put all my coopers lager into the fridge almost immediately after bottling, and left about a dozen out on the shelf as I ran out of space.
The ones in the fridge are flat and the ones on the shelves are fizzy.
I guessed that they were too cold, so they are now in the warm for a few more weeks.

Thanks for confirming it.
:thumb:

I have since learnt that they need the room temp (20Deg C) for at least 10 days, but I tend to leave them for 14 and then into the coldest room for a week

 

[shearclass]

Aye as much as like coopers stuff their instructions would have you believe that you'll be drinking great beer after a few days, it just takes longer. Minimum 10 days in the warm

My feelings exactly - decent cheap kits, (or at least the lager ones have been so far, one ale i did wasn't great) but the instructions aren't great.

 

[shearclass]

Had to leave my canadian blonde for about 2 months to cardboante effectively, it took ages.