No priming sugar.

[flamingo]

Hi fellas,
A couple of months ago when bottling I was called away and several bottles slipped into the system minus priming sugar. They taste OK and will not be thrown away, but I was wondering if there is anything I can do to restore a bit of life to the bottles.

Any advice appreciated.

 

[Baz Chaz]

When you pour 'em, just give it the 'long drop' into the glass :thumb:

I'm happier drinking low carbonated beer anyway :

 

[bunkerbrewer]

Maybe worth drinking the uncarbonated bottles first - carbonation eats up oxygen and helps the beer keep longer...

 

[Hawks]

I never prime any of the odd bottles I do ( most goes into kegs ).

I then leave them in the warm a little longer than usual and they also get kept for longer ( as I drink the kegs first ). I prefer it as I don't like beers very carbonated and I have never had a problem with them keeping.
I should note I bottle these direct from primary so find a little action always still happens anyway. Not sure if time in secondary would lessen this, but my mind says it probably would lessen what little carbonation I get.. :wha:

 

[flamingo]

Thanks for your replies fellas.

Some useful advice there. I shall be trying the "long drop" tonight for a start. Hope it lands in the pot. :pray:

Thanks again.

 

[bottler]

A few years ago my son obtained a pint becks glass from a belfast pub. Its squareish at the bottom and rounds of as it reachs the top. If you look down to the bottom of the glass there is a disc shaped gausey design about 1" diameter and when you pour a beer into that glass you see a constant stream of bubbles rising from the "gausy disc" your beer keeps a good head. It says on the glass becks vier and imported down each side in glass letters if you catch my drift.

 

[rpt]

All lager glasses should be like that. Coca Cola too.

 

[DirtyCaner]

Carlsberg tops? Thats what I do when sampling the flat beer out the fermenter... Something bland like carlsberg or bud doesn't really alter taste of the beer, just a wee splash in the top poured from high up.

 

[Joes1806]

U can buy them in amazon £10 for 4

 

[Dr Mike]

GW's books suggest you should bottle without priming, but you have to keep the bottles longer for the bigger sugars left from fermentation to give the carbonation.

Not tried it myself for the reason given above - priming & rapid carbonation will eat up any oxygen that got in during bottling.