how long

Tonight I bottled a batch of beer. It's an American Weissen. The instructions didn't say anything about how long to keep it bottled before drinking it.

I brewed the beer on May 9th, moved it to a 2ndary on May 16th and bottled today (June13th, darn procrastination). How long should it carbonate in the bottles?

Thanks. Jeff

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Jeff Harris
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depends on temperature, but aweek should be ok IMHO. Try one out in a week if it isn't carbonated enough leave it a little longer. At worst it will be semi-flat beer. If you used pet bottles just squize 'em to see if they are firm yet.

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stephen

It's quite instructional to taste a bottle every week or so - you can monitor the beer's change over time. It also gives you an idea as to when a particular beer has peaked. Weissens by nature should probably be drunk young (start 3-4 weeks?). Any banana/clove usually fades over time

- so if you like that sort of thing - drink early. If not let it age a little, but being a low IBU style beer it probably won't 'last' long. cheers rb

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rb

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