forgot to prime???

Just sampled a Summit saga clone i bottled on 7/20. Taste is spot on however flat as a pancake. I cant imagine I forgot to prime which I always do with two cups water and 5oz corn sugar on the stove top. Could it be something else? Like I said taste is spot on its just flat no carb at all.
Thanks, still learning,
Jimmykx250

Are the bottles sealed well? Did you fine the beer before bottling? Very long fermentation?

Otherwise, it might just take some time. 3-4 weeks should give off a pfft at minimum.

How do you mix the sugar into the beer before bottling?

it’s possible you didn’t mix it well enough and there will be flat bottles and way way over carbed bottles. try a couple bottles from different places in the run and see if the problem is universal or spotty.

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Yes, this too.

I normally mix 2 cup swater and 5oz corn sugar boil for 10min and cool dump it into the bottom of the botteling bucket an then rack on top of it. Im sure bottles are sealed well but not sure what finning means? I let this batch sit in the fermenter for 3-1/2 weeks and the hydrometer was steady for 3 days so im good there.

Finning is using something to drop the yeast out. Gelatin, isinglass, and BioFine clear are few examples.

what temp has it been conditioning at since bottling?

That was my thought.

IT has been between 68 and 72.

I know this sounds like alot of work but worse case scnario and they are all flat- can I dose them and re-cap?
Say maybee with prime dose or something? I would rather do that work than drink it flat or toss it.

try warming things up a bit. If you have a spot where it’s more in the mid to high 70’s or even low 80’s stash the bottles there for a week and see what you get.

you can. I’ve not used any of the pre-measured priming tabs but you could try them. I mix up a syrup of known gravity (sugar and water by weight) so that say .5 tsp is how much one 12 oz bottle needs when I am doing just a couple bottles. This should work here too. Ideally you would have a syringe with measurement marks. pop each cap, add sugar, recap and turn gently to distribute sugar and yeast.

+1 - I use the Coopers carb drops all the time to prime my 1-gallon batches. I have also used my gram scale to weigh out priming sugar on a dose-by-dose basis, but I like Jonathan’s idea about making a syrup better.

I have been using the syrup method lately. Can’t remember what the amount of syrup was, but I basically mixed 1oz sugar with 1oz water. Heated in the microwave and dosed each bottle with a pipette. Worked much better than trying to pour sugar straight in.
I would use the carbdrops, but I feel silly buying them. Little expensive for what they are.

Do you see a thin layer of sediment on the bottom of your bottles?  That would normally be the yeast from bottle conditioning.  Shake the bottles up to rouse the yeast.  If you don’t see any sediment, I suspect that you forgot to prime.

A fellow brewer told me that you can carbonate with 1 sugar cube and that they provide about 2.5 v/v of sugar.  I haven’t tried sugar cubes but I was going to try it the next time I have more beer than will fit in a keg or I want a few bottles for competition.

I think everyone is forgetting one important possibility. Two questions: Did you have hot dogs for lunch on bottling day? Were they boiled or grilled? If boiled see reply 9 on this thread: How Bad Have You Crashed and Burned? - General Homebrew Discussion - American Homebrewers Association® Forum

If it’s completely flat then you didn’t prime, the caps didn’t seal, or all your yeast is dead. Carbonation is a necessary byproduct of bottle fermentation. If your beer fermented warmer than you think then you will have less dissolved CO2 in the beer but that would only result in under-carbonation rather than no carbonation.

If the beer tastes sweeter than it did before you bottled it then you primed but your yeast are dead (which would mean you either poisoned them or tried to boil your beer).

If the caps come off by hand or you can twist them then the caps did not seal.

If the caps are tight and the beer is not sweeter than it was pre-bottling then you did not prime the beer. This is not as outlandish as you might think. After five years of brewing and bottling I recently forgot to prime a batch and only remembered after I had put on the last cap. Fortunately mine was only a gallon batch but I was not happy with myself.

Pop the caps, add some sugar and reseal. Or enjoy some still beer.