Forgot to warm condition

[Up the blades]

Hi folks, i was over at my brothers house the other week and decided to knock him up a quick simple lager kit. However once i bottled it the whole lot went into the conservatory where its obviously pretty cold. I forgot to keep in the warm for a week. What will the consequenses of this be ?

[CrownCap]

You might be lucky and the yeast still managed to ferment the sugars and carbonate the lager (particularly if a lager yeast was used). However, at low temperatures that might take a lot longer than a week. I suspect you'll just have a flat bottled lager - pop one and give it a try!

You could bring them up to room temperature, pop the caps and sprinkle in a few grains of some Nottingham yeast (or something similar), re-cap, gently mix and warm condition again as usual.

[Up the blades]

cheers thanks for that. im away from the brew and will be till the weekend, there is also no1 else there who can move them either. they only went into the conservatory monday evening so has only been 2 days upto now, 5 by the weekend. they can be moved back into the warm then if this would help ?

[boingy]

Just bring 'em back into the warmth for a week or two then put them back into the cool. The yeast will almost certainly wake up and do the biz.

[Cheshire-cheese]

Just bring 'em back into the warmth for a week or two then put them back into the cool. The yeast will almost certainly wake up and do the biz.

I'll second that.