Carbonation Help

It is not uncommon for a bigger beer to take longer to carbonate. How many days has it been since you bottled? What ABV did you finish at?

 

What do you mean by lost your carbonation? Do you mean your bottles were carbonated and then went flat? If so, your caps weren't seated/crimped properly.

 

let it ride another couple weeks at room temp, 8 days isn't going to be enough a lot of the time

 

Opened growlers will definitely lose carbonation. Next time I recommend a 12 oz bottle.

 

Here is a crash course on carbonating in a bottle: After your beer has reached its Final Gravity, priming sugar is added so that the yeast in suspension can do a little bit more fermentation creating CO2. Now, as long as the beer is bottled and secured so as to be completely sealed, the CO2 produced will be under pressure and forced back into solution, carbonating the beer.

So, if you were bottling in a container that wasn't airtight, the carbonation would be able to escape and not carbonate the beer. Sounds like thats what happened.

Sorry if this is all super obvious to you, but you are new so I didn't know.

 

Is the beer in a standard thin-glass growler, or something that can take the carb pressure if you end up getting over-carbonated? I suggest keeping it in a bucket just in case.