Lager Carbonation in bottles?

[krusty]

Excuse my lack of experience this is my 1st brew.
After priming and capping a few bottles and putting the rest of my lager kit into a primed pressure barrel, I followed the destructions and placed them in a warm place for 4 days, they are now in the garage to clear.
It seems from what other posts are saying this won't have been long enough for carbonation to take place. Is this correct and if so is it too late to take remedial action? Does carbonation continue whilst clearing is in process? or does the cold kill it dead?
I have no doubt if my lager turns out flat, it'll still get drunk, but it'd be nice to have a bit of life in it.

 

[chiefstoker]

Et voila!! viewtopic.php?f=36&t=6332

not too sure about the keg, if its a plastic one they are not recommended for lagers

 

[krusty]

Yes, sadly the keg is a plastic one, but I'm slowly getting a good collection of brown bottles together. So the next lager will go into bottles which will give me the pressure barrel for a bitter or the like.
I will try a bottle in a few days for research and evaluation practices, and if it's a bit flat I'll bring 'em back the warm and see if I can't get the yeasties back into buisness.

 

[krusty]

Just cracked open a bottle of the pilsner, just to see if any carbonation has taken place, it's still pretty cloudy because it's only been out in the garage for 3 days.
Theres barely a hint of a fizz on opening the bottle, but the flavours are there, so I've brought the barrel and the few bottles I filled indoors and give 'em all a good shake up. I'll leave them indoors for a bit and see how the carbonation is in a week or so, if it's improved I'll stick 'em back outside to clear. Hopefuly my yeasties will bounce back and fix my flat brew. :pray:

 

[krusty]

Well a bit late with an update on my 1st brew but, it turns out that having brought the botles in from the cold and giving them a good shake up has worked a treat, all the bottles have been drunk, Only had enough to bottle 4, and the improvement was 10 fold, lots of lovely carbonation and a very drinkable, if a little potent, brew emerged. :
As for the keg thats doing better as the weeks go by, but sadly I'm nearing the bottom of the barrel and carbonation has only really just started getting there, but otherwise a nice drop.(Too much sampling I'm afraid) Even Mrs Krusty is partaking in a lager shandy or two.

 

[chiefstoker]

Get mrs krusty on the TC, that'll be knix off time :thumb:

 

[krusty]

The TCs bubbling away very nicely and we now have a lovely scrumpy whiff coming from the airing cupboard, Mrs Krustys already 1st in line for sampling that when it's ready. She had a sniff yesterday and was very impressed, I hope it tastes as good. :pray: