GalenSevinne
Active Member
Is there any typical timeframe one could expect to see bottles exploding if they were to explode? Or could it be expected to happen anytime throughout the life span of the beer in the bottle?
I guess my concern is that (this is my first brew) I mixed up enough priming sugar for 5 gallons but after pouring the beer from the fermenting bucket onto it in the bottling bucket there was only 4.5 gallons. Doesn't seem to be a big difference to me but because I have never done this before, it has my eye.
Thanks,
that difference in sugar shouldn't matter.
I HAVE had exploding bottles, and it was a decade ago when I bottled an extract Stout that was about 1.024
stupidity and impatience, I figured it must be done after 1 week.
about a month and a half later they started exploding. one bottle would pop and break the 6 bottles surrounding it in the case.
every bottle gushed when opened until it was only half full. all a waste.
Ive brewed 12-15 batches and I just had my first exploding bottle last night. I made the Saison de Garde recipe from the All About Beer that came out a couple months ago. I think I bottled a little prematurely; it was in the primary fermenter for 17 days. From what I've been reading, it could have probably used some additional time in a secondary fermentation.
I also used a cup of priming sugar for the 5 gal batch, so my carbonation will be on the upper end, but that is desirable for this style of beer from what I understand.
Hopefully I won't have any more bombs since i have another 10 days before I will sample one.
I had two bottles explode in my closet. I had moved the day before and I think they got shaken up a bit. Woke up in the morning and they had blown glass out of the closet into the hallway. There was glass EVERYWHERE (including sticking out of walls). It was actually rather disturbing.
That's exactly what happened to me the first time, and yes, seeing the brown ale splattered across the wall, and discovering glass shards everywhere was disturbing and sort of terrifying. I'm confused this time (my Ipa exploded last night) because I didn't move it around a whole lot and fermentation as far as I could tell was done.
EFaden, what yeast were you using for your exploding bottles? Also, were they old, I"m not sure how old my bottles are at this point, or how often they've been used.
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