no carbonation

Arbe0

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Beer has been in the bottles for over 3 weeks and there is no carbonation, not head, no fiz..nothing.
I know I put in corn sugar, boiled it for 15 min in water before I put it into the bottling bucket.
It is a Homey lemon wheat
8oz. briess crystal 10L
8 oz briess Vienna malt
6 lb wheat LME
1oz German spalt (60min)
1 oz dried lemon peel and 1 lb Colorado clover honey (5min)
Safale US-05
 
Could be bad seals on the caps. Are you using crown caps or rocker tops?

Are you keeping the bottles at room temp? 3 weeks should be plenty to see some fizz.
 
I am using crown caps. Tasted the beer, it wasn't bad (for a non carbonated beer)
 
What was OG and FG? Any bubbles at all when you pour?

I had a 7.9% that took about 4.5 weeks or so to carb up.
 
Russ, what kind of beer (lager or ale) and how long has it been in secondary?

And are you absolutely sure you got priming sugar in there? I recently used some priming tabs on a beer and ended up with a very reluctant carbonation - might be a factor as well. What yeast did you use for the beer? If it's highly floculant, it could all have fallen out. And it could be just extra time is needed.
 

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