Carbonation Issues

[Mark Kessell]

hi guys,

i bottled my uber fantastic stout couple weeks ago, and i used about 1 teaspoon of dextrose to prime the bottles. i'm not getting any carbonation at all.

i've checked the caps, and they're all on tight to the point it's ripping my hand apart when i try to get them tighter. i cleaned the bottles using hot soapy water, rinsed in cold, sanitised with starsan, and then another quick cold rinse befor putting the beer in. i've not had any problems using dextrose in the past. so i feel it can't be that.

the malt i used in the recipe is as follows (can't remember the exact amounts, but in total, was 6kg malt bill):
Barley Flakes
Medium Peat Smoked Malt
Caramalt 30
Maris Otter Base

i wouldn't have thought it was anything in there that would cause it. but not sure.
i only had >1L trub in the fermenter, so not much yeast would have been bottled i feel.

any ideas? or just leave it longer?

[Reviled]

Sounds perfect mate!! It is a stout after all? Think of all those flavours coming through that would have otherwise been hidden by the carbonation...

What id do Mark, is leave the bottles at 20*c odd for another week or so, then chill the bottles down for a week or so as low to 0*c to get the Co2 to absorb into the solution better, then serve...

[Stu McKinlay]

Man, if you got a beer engine you'd beer in beery heaven. Once you go flat and black you never want to go back. Want a hoppy beer? No problem... just make yourself a flat black hoppy beer!

[Mark]

does it taste really salty?

[Mark Kessell]

luckily no. just flat.

[Mike Neilson]

Man if it tastes salty cut back on the baking soda!!