Jebu1788
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As the title of the post may suggest, I just searched for and found out about the ill-advised method of bottle conditioning in growlers. When I was a bit short on bottles come bottling day a couple days ago I thought a light, summertime wheat beer would be great to have in a growler, so I had gone ahead with using one of my 1/2 gallon growlers to make up for my lack of bottles.
I've used enough sugar that there should be about 2.5-2.6 volumes of CO2 when everything is all said and done. And after reading about the vast arrays of broken growlers, it is now sitting in a plastic box by itself lest the explosions, or less dramatic bottoms falling off indeed occur.
It seems to me that from reading on here the breakage of the growler is not guaranteed by any means, probably not even likely as many attest to repeatedly practicing "growler conditioning," but by no means a trivial occurrence. My question is, is there anything I could, or better yet, should do? Again, the growler in question is in solitary, so to speak, and though I don't think it's likely (it does seem to be as heavy duty as the 1/2 gallon growlers seem to come, albeit perhaps still not enough), but just wondering.
I'm done rambling now. Thanks for any advice.
I've used enough sugar that there should be about 2.5-2.6 volumes of CO2 when everything is all said and done. And after reading about the vast arrays of broken growlers, it is now sitting in a plastic box by itself lest the explosions, or less dramatic bottoms falling off indeed occur.
It seems to me that from reading on here the breakage of the growler is not guaranteed by any means, probably not even likely as many attest to repeatedly practicing "growler conditioning," but by no means a trivial occurrence. My question is, is there anything I could, or better yet, should do? Again, the growler in question is in solitary, so to speak, and though I don't think it's likely (it does seem to be as heavy duty as the 1/2 gallon growlers seem to come, albeit perhaps still not enough), but just wondering.
I'm done rambling now. Thanks for any advice.