For wholesale brewery supplies, You have bottled your beer and let it sit for 2 weeks in your microbrewery plant. You go to check on your bottles and they are still flat! Can you add more yeast to save them? Imagine that you bottle your beer from fermenter tanks and then you go to grab one and put it in the fridge and the bottles are soft, it feels like there is no pressure in the bottles at all.
Worse yet, you put one bottle in the fridge and then you go to drink it and its either super flat or it has a slightly off-flavor that tastes like butter or cider. What do you do?
You can add more yeast to the rest of your bottles to either add carbonation to your brew or to help clean up an off-flavor in your beer. There are a few considerations that you need to examine before you do this.
Make sure your bottles aren’t leaking. If C02 is escaping, adding more yeast won’t fix the problem. In these cases, sometimes you can try and rebottle, which is not really recommend as it opens up an entire doorway to infection and oxygenation if not done properly. You also need to add more sugar as what was in there was consumed by the yeast.
So, if you have leaky bottles adding more yeast will not help create any more C02 in your beer.
The other factor is that if your beer has an anaerobic infection adding more yeast won't help. This is basically anything other than that butter or cidery taste in beer that you get from diacetyl or aldehydes in your beer.
If those are not a consideration, then you want to follow this process to add more yeast to your bottles.
Get a packet of fresh, unopened yeast that is the same as the yeast you brewed the beer with
Sanitize and dry a small saucer or plate
Wash your hands VERY well
Sprinkle some yeast in a thin layer on the saucer
Open the bottle and firmly press your fingertip onto the granules so that they stick. (your fingertip should be pretty consistently covered with yeast)
Sprinkle what was lifted by your finger into the bottle
Quickly reseal the bottle and give it a gentle squeeze to assure there are no leaks
Move your bottles to a warm area for 2-3 weeks.
That’s it.
Starting a microbrewery? Tiantai beer company is professional brewery equipment. Beer brewing equipment, cider making equipment, kombucha fermenting equipment, hard seltzer fermenting equipment.
sale@cnbrewery.com
Emily Gong
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Worse yet, you put one bottle in the fridge and then you go to drink it and its either super flat or it has a slightly off-flavor that tastes like butter or cider. What do you do?
You can add more yeast to the rest of your bottles to either add carbonation to your brew or to help clean up an off-flavor in your beer. There are a few considerations that you need to examine before you do this.
Make sure your bottles aren’t leaking. If C02 is escaping, adding more yeast won’t fix the problem. In these cases, sometimes you can try and rebottle, which is not really recommend as it opens up an entire doorway to infection and oxygenation if not done properly. You also need to add more sugar as what was in there was consumed by the yeast.
So, if you have leaky bottles adding more yeast will not help create any more C02 in your beer.
The other factor is that if your beer has an anaerobic infection adding more yeast won't help. This is basically anything other than that butter or cidery taste in beer that you get from diacetyl or aldehydes in your beer.
If those are not a consideration, then you want to follow this process to add more yeast to your bottles.
Get a packet of fresh, unopened yeast that is the same as the yeast you brewed the beer with
Sanitize and dry a small saucer or plate
Wash your hands VERY well
Sprinkle some yeast in a thin layer on the saucer
Open the bottle and firmly press your fingertip onto the granules so that they stick. (your fingertip should be pretty consistently covered with yeast)
Sprinkle what was lifted by your finger into the bottle
Quickly reseal the bottle and give it a gentle squeeze to assure there are no leaks
Move your bottles to a warm area for 2-3 weeks.
That’s it.
Starting a microbrewery? Tiantai beer company is professional brewery equipment. Beer brewing equipment, cider making equipment, kombucha fermenting equipment, hard seltzer fermenting equipment.
sale@cnbrewery.com
Emily Gong
