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Hey Now! I'm pretty new to this site and I'm amazed with all the knowledge and advice..Now, My question I hope I can get some help on.. I bottled a Belgium Triple in a combo of 20oz bottles and 64oz growlers. After a few months I tried some..WOW..except for the ones I bottled in the growlers with new fancy plastic caps (to replace rusting old metal caps in fear of flavor/contamination) The ones with the plastic caps were as FLAT as a (insert joke)..But, No carbonation! Can I pour the remaining beer into growlers with metal caps with a pinch on priming sugar to save them? Or should I just drink the flat beer like a trooper,throw away the plastic caps, and chalk it up as a learning experience?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
P.S. Yes the caps were screwed down tight

Cheers to all!

I have heard of folks mixing Bud Lite with their flatish beers to increase the carbonation.

You could try repriming them. What is the worst that could happen? Contamination and funk, but if the beer isn't drinkable as it is then what's the harm?

Is this a Mr. Beer Kit batch? Either way it might be time to ditch the plastic.

I'd add a little lively yeast as well (neutral strain) just to make sure your old priming sugar fermented out, and also so you have live yeast for carbonating with the new batch of priming sugar.

fluffhead wrote:Hey Now! I'm pretty new to this site and I'm amazed with all the knowledge and advice..Now, My question I hope I can get some help on.. I bottled a Belgium Triple in a combo of 20oz bottles and 64oz growlers. After a few months I tried some..WOW..except for the ones I bottled in the growlers with new fancy plastic caps (to replace rusting old metal caps in fear of flavor/contamination) The ones with the plastic caps were as FLAT as a (insert joke)..But, No carbonation! Can I pour the remaining beer into growlers with metal caps with a pinch on priming sugar to save them? Or should I just drink the flat beer like a trooper,throw away the plastic caps, and chalk it up as a learning experience?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
P.S. Yes the caps were screwed down tight

Cheers to all!

Right tool for the right job, brotha. Growlers are for taking beer to parties - not for holding pressure. Somehow you have to get the beer into capable bottles or a keg. DannyW once suggested to run a CPF backwards, and push the beer back into a purged keg - which sounded to me like the best way to reduce the possibility of oxidation.

But, if you can't do that, then your only choice is to carefully pour them into your bottling bucket, reprime, and bottle correctly. Either way, you should plan on drinking these sooner - rather than later.

Save the brew! Good luck.

Mylo

Did we scare him off? I'm curious what he decided to do.

HopRunner wrote:Did we scare him off? I'm curious what he decided to do.

HAHAHAHAA..No I wasn't scared off..I have a moral suppression device at work (aka..firewall) and a 3 year old!
Thanks for the advice fellas, I was thinking after reading the replies, Could I thief some yeast (wlp001) with a racking cane off of a pale ale in the primary put a tad bit into each bottle and siphon from the growler to the bottle? OR..could I pour the carbonated triple into a glass, consume the contents as I siphon from growler to bottle with sediment and cap, or would the yeast be to spent?
I'd hate to resort to putting in carbonated ass water..bud light.. into my golden hevanly bliss to carbonate it

fluffhead wrote:

HopRunner wrote:Did we scare him off? I'm curious what he decided to do.

HAHAHAHAA..No I wasn't scared off..I have a moral suppression device at work (aka..firewall) and a 3 year old!
Thanks for the advice fellas, I was thinking after reading the replies, Could I thief some yeast (wlp001) with a racking cane off of a pale ale in the primary put a tad bit into each bottle and siphon from the growler to the bottle? OR..could I pour the carbonated triple into a glass, consume the contents as I siphon from growler to bottle with sediment and cap, or would the yeast be to spent?
I'd hate to resort to putting in carbonated ass water..bud light.. into my golden hevanly bliss to carbonate it

I think you need to take your best guess and report back soldier.