Hi all,
I know there have been a lot of posts about this and I have searched around trying to find a similar problem. There aren't really any posts that are as extreme as what happened to me.
Brewed a high gravity spiced ale that I was hoping to have ready for about Christmas time... Brewed in mid September spent 4 weeks in Primary, and another 4 weeks in secondary. FG was a little higher than I expected, but stopped moving for a couple weeks. Bottled in early November hoping to have it all ready for Christmas, and it's a couple weeks into 2013 and just tested another bottle to be completely flat! Then last night while my apartment mates and I were all sleeping, I had a bottle bomb!
Luckily no one was injured and I only lost 1 beer, now I have opened about 6 of these bottles all to find them completely flat. It seems that my priming sugar may have ended up in all but a couple bottles?!
I add the boiled then cooled priming sugar solution (4oz Corn Sugar in 2 cups water) to the bottom of the bottling bucket w/ spigot, racked on top like usual (no stirring) then bottled...
Long story short it's been almost 10 weeks since bottling and I have one bottle bomb and 6 sampled bottles that are completely flat. How can I save the rest?
I opened one bottle 6 weeks in, then approximately one bottle a week since to test.
Any thoughts from the experts? Add priming sugar manually to each bottle to determine which are flat/ which are over carbed?
I know there have been a lot of posts about this and I have searched around trying to find a similar problem. There aren't really any posts that are as extreme as what happened to me.
Brewed a high gravity spiced ale that I was hoping to have ready for about Christmas time... Brewed in mid September spent 4 weeks in Primary, and another 4 weeks in secondary. FG was a little higher than I expected, but stopped moving for a couple weeks. Bottled in early November hoping to have it all ready for Christmas, and it's a couple weeks into 2013 and just tested another bottle to be completely flat! Then last night while my apartment mates and I were all sleeping, I had a bottle bomb!
Luckily no one was injured and I only lost 1 beer, now I have opened about 6 of these bottles all to find them completely flat. It seems that my priming sugar may have ended up in all but a couple bottles?!
I add the boiled then cooled priming sugar solution (4oz Corn Sugar in 2 cups water) to the bottom of the bottling bucket w/ spigot, racked on top like usual (no stirring) then bottled...
Long story short it's been almost 10 weeks since bottling and I have one bottle bomb and 6 sampled bottles that are completely flat. How can I save the rest?
I opened one bottle 6 weeks in, then approximately one bottle a week since to test.
Any thoughts from the experts? Add priming sugar manually to each bottle to determine which are flat/ which are over carbed?