storytyme
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I am coming up to the end of my first year home brewing. It has been awesome. I enjoy every part of it. I have brewed 20 batches thus far and most recently I have had some problems with bottles exploding. When they first started blowing up I quickly concluded that storing them in a 95 degree cabinet in my garage will not work (rookie error). So I put them in a chest freezer with a Johnson thermo control set at 70. I use this freezer for them to bottle condition and then stay in there until I transfer them into the fridge for a few days before drinking. I was happy with this set-up until I returned from a family trip to Disneyland for five days and found that 2 of the bottles exploded. They were from the same batch and their 3 week conditioning period was to end June 15th. I have followed exactly the measurements given on beersmith for priming sugar, so what gives? Just a weird coincidence? I must say that cleaning up shattered beer bottles is not a fun part of home brewing and I would not like to repeat it. Help please!!!