COOPERS LAGER KIT ADVICE/HELP

[postman]

evening all, just got a bottle of my new batch of beer. poured it out, it looks like a crystal clear pint of lager but flat as a pancake.

Any advice or just pour all 40 bottles away & start again?

If start again, any recommeded lager kits??

thankyou

 

[theboytony]

Hi, will need a bit more info, how much sugar did you prime the bottles with, how long have they been left to condition, temperature they have conditioned at. I left a turbo cider to long before bottling once and it just wouldn't get any pressure up (used 2L PET bottles) ended up chucking a few grains of yeast in the bottles and it worked a treat, probably not safe with glass bottles though but i don't have any anyway, i went straight from plastic to cornies.

Cheers

 

[abeyptfc]

if it tastes ok then dont throw it away, if its flat then what ive done with brew in the past is have it is a lager shandy, i made an arse of batch priming my canadian blonde but just half fill it with lemonade and problem solved. i dont think i could be arsed putting yeast in every individual bottle.

 

[postman]

hi, thanks for your replies.

i bottled using plastic 500ml pet bottles with one carbonation drop in each bottle, which is exactly what i did with my previous 3 batches that were very successful!

they have been conditioning for about 3 weeks in a temperature around 22/23 degrees.

puzzled!!!!

 

[Muddy Funker]

Try putting them in the shed or fridge (somewhere cold) for a couple more weeks. That may allow the beer to take up more co2.

 

[Bribie]

Was it really clear on bottling? If so you could try tipping the bottles for a few days to get everything swirling back into suspension. The yeast that comes with a Coopers kit is actually an ale yeast and at those temperatures you mention, even just a few yeast cells left should breed up fairly quickly if you rouse them.