After 670 bottles my first foamer!!

Well - had to happen (or not) but after 670 bottles I had my first foamer Sunday. Now I'm freaked and refuse to give anyone that batch of beer!!

DANG!!

What did you do differently? What was the recipe?

How does it taste?

I have drinkin (drunk?) 28 of the bottles and all were fine - fantastic actually so I was shocked when this happened - I'll be trying another one tonight! I'm hoping it's a one bottle blunder but . . . . . .

geez - I've never been this on edge LOL

Examine the bottles....any 'film' just around the headspace. Could mean infection. Some of those bugs chew really slowly.

Maybe a bottle or two slipped through your sanitation regimen. It happens.

Yeah, I had a foamer in a batch once and felt weird about entire batch. After it happened, I immediately moved every bottle to the beer fridge in the garage and opened them all in the sink for awhile.

Didn't get a single other foamer in the batch.

That is what I'm hoping - I sure don't want to give anyone foamer beer!

I get bottles from friends who are pretty good at rinsing but I know ONE almost slipped through once.

The only foamer I got was in a batch with plenty of others that were not. I rushed to the sink and poured it out and there was a glob of something that came out with the beer. Was down the drain before I got a good look, but I think it was a glob of goo like you'd get when you leave a bit of beer to spoil in the bottle.

I wonder if I accidentally bottled into an unclean bottle.

ahh!
shutup. y'all are skeerin me!
i have about 400 empties. all mine at least, and me and SWMBO are very good about rinsing, and pre rinsing before sanitizing. but i have co workers who are mooches after trying batch one and two. they constantly ask me for another sample.... goo would be bad!

I tried another from the batch and all was well so my fears have sobsided a little. Still - no one gets freebies from THAT batch anymore (which is a good thing).

Grinder12000 said:

...and refuse to give anyone that batch of beer!!

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Well then quietly turn your back for a few seconds and we will pretend that nothing happened.
-Me

What are you talking about? Foamer Batches are ideal to waste on friends.

One thing I do as an extra precaution is this:

When brew day is over I don't dump the sanitizer I have used. Rather, I pour it into a bucket I use for bottles.

After I consume a bottle of beer, I rinse it out well. Then I submerge it into the bucket of sanitizer until the next morning. The next morning I empty the bottle and set it aside to dry. I then store it.

When it is time to fill that bottle again, I go through the sanitation cycle as I normally would.

AH, rinsing them out is fine. I always look into each bottle before using, just to be sure I don't have a nasty one, but I also get a lot of my bottles from the beer store, so I's possible that I didn't clean one out well enough.

As far as not serving to friends, well, I would laugh my @ss off if one of my friends got a gusher! (unless it was on my wife's new carpet...)