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I recently made a Golden Strong with an OG of 1.068 and FG of 1.007. It looked great to me because the FG told me it should be really dry. I am a bottler and added priming sugar and yeast. When I first sampled it (3 weeks later), I could taste a sweetness in teh after taste. It wasn't malty and tasted like my priming sugar (corn).

Did I add too much sugar or did something else happen? I used was BeerSmith told me for 3.5vol.

Any ideas?

I hope you didn't add that much priming sugar in a regular 12 oz bottle. Those where never designed to hold 3.5 vols of C02...You may have bottle bombs when the yeast you added, finally consumes the rest of the sugar.

If your tasting priming sugar it may just be that.

1. your yeast may have crapped out.
2. conditioning to cool.

I would suggest turning each bottle upside down and then put them back right side up... to rouse the yeast. Then give it a week and see what happens. If you suspect it may be to cool move them some where warmer after you do this. Bottle bombs are no fun. Happened to me once and i knew it was gonna happen.. dumbass... I though my neighbor shot his old lady when I heard big bangs and glass shattering at 3am!

I bottle conditioned a Saison last year and it took a couple of months to fully carbonate. Like the others said, rouse the yeast and maybe move them to a warmer spot. Maybe even put them in garbage bags in case they explode!

Sheen wrote:I bottle conditioned a Saison last year and it took a couple of months to fully carbonate. Like the others said, rouse the yeast and maybe move them to a warmer spot. Maybe even put them in garbage bags in case they explode!

Shit, I think shrapnel would still tear through a contractor bag... You might want want those special Kevlar garbage bags...

Either that, or get yourself a bomb robot to get you beer.


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