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Hello all,
Could someone give me some advice. I have just had a drink of my latest batch. The taste is fantastic but its flat? what did i do wrong this time? normally they stay faitrly fizzy.

I used a pilsner kit but instead of sugar i used a maltose fructose mix which really did make the flavour fantastic. Did all the usual addition of priming sugar for the secondary fermentation in the pressure keg but its flat <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->
The other difference is that i left this a good 5 weeks to condition before i tried it. I thought that the pressure keg would keep it fairly fizzy?


any ideas?

How Much priming sugar did you use?

does your beer have a head when it is poured?, i have used a pressure keg in the past and have found that it gives a great head on the beer but never really gave me the "fizz" that i get when using a bottle.

if your beer has little or no head when poured it could mean that there is a leak in your pressure keg

Hope this helps

I used about 4 ounces of sugar for priming. The usual really?
maybe there is a leak, ill have a look. Is there any way of rescuing it

4 ounce is around 100g, that a standard priming rate,

yup, it can easily be saved, if it is not carbonated at all just re-prime the beer, [u:h1ct46sj]maybe[/u:h1ct46sj] pitch some new yeast and seal the Barrel.

i would try moving the barrel to a warmer spot first though just in case it is a case of it being too cold for your yeast, if you re-prime and the yeast have not converted the last batch of sugar it could lead to some seriously foamy beer or even blowing the pressure valve on your barrel.

think i primed with 3oz of brown sugar in my keg and it was prefection.