How long do you guys leave your beer in bottles before drinking them?
i've a bottled brew out in the garage that seems to be taking a while to carbonate. Tried one at 8 days in the bottle and its flat. The answer of course is just leave it there for another week and check again but i was wondering how long do you all leave beer (pale ales) to condition?
Paul
You might want to bring em in at higher temps to carbonate and then put them out, I condition for about 4 weeks but they get better with time if you can wait
yep, agree with Gugs.
Minimum of 2 weeks at the same temperature it was fermented at, then pop out to the shed.
It wont carb at a low temp.
Yeah, i doubt your shed had enough warmth at this time of the year. bring it inside for a few weeks
the time depends on the beer for me.
hefewiezens here generally get opened pretty much as soon as they're carbonated.
Something mild and hoppy after a few weeks
Strong or dark get left for months.
but in general my preference for most beers is 2-3 months in the bottle
Does the same apply for a force conditioned keg actually? As in, leave for 2-3 months and it gets better, like a bottled conditioned beer usually does...
Thanks for replys. Comfirms what i suspected. Had 6 bottles inside for 8 days and they are carbonated (not a huge amount but not bad) and the rest are out in the shed and flat. Had started to leave almost everything outside due to lack of indoor space.
So I can just move all filled bottles indoors for a week or two and it should be ok.
Quote from: pk on November 06, 2014, 10:48:11 PM
Thanks for replys. Comfirms what i suspected. Had 6 bottles inside for 8 days and they are carbonated (not a huge amount but not bad) and the rest are out in the shed and flat. Had started to leave almost everything outside due to lack of indoor space.
So I can just move all filled bottles indoors for a week or two and it should be ok.
Should be grand ya, into a hot press or something, give em a little shake if you want, nothing too vigourous but just a little rock, they should be fine once you had enough priming sugar in your solution at bottling time