cladinshadows
Well-Known Member
Let's say, theoretically, someone bottled without paying close attention to their priming rate. Purely for the purpose of discussion we'll assume this brewer primed with enough sugar to push his beer into the range of 4 volumes. What are his options?
Ok yeah it was me.
Could bottle bombs be avoided by removing the caps to release pressure and then immediately recapping? Has anyone had experience with that technique before? I doubt that I will be able to entirely prevent all bottle bombs, but I'd like to reduce the number lost.
Another technique I was thinking about was to refrigerate them when they seemed to reach the desired / non-explosive carbonation level and keep them refrigerated. Would that be effective enough in stopping the process to prevent bombs?
The recapping method seems the most promising to me because it will allow the yeast to keep working until they're done (instead of putting them to sleep too early and stunting the conditioning process), but there's no way to guarantee that there will be any consistency from bottle to bottle, and I may end up with plenty of bombs and a few undercarbed bottles.
Thanks for any input.
Ok yeah it was me.
Could bottle bombs be avoided by removing the caps to release pressure and then immediately recapping? Has anyone had experience with that technique before? I doubt that I will be able to entirely prevent all bottle bombs, but I'd like to reduce the number lost.
Another technique I was thinking about was to refrigerate them when they seemed to reach the desired / non-explosive carbonation level and keep them refrigerated. Would that be effective enough in stopping the process to prevent bombs?
The recapping method seems the most promising to me because it will allow the yeast to keep working until they're done (instead of putting them to sleep too early and stunting the conditioning process), but there's no way to guarantee that there will be any consistency from bottle to bottle, and I may end up with plenty of bombs and a few undercarbed bottles.
Thanks for any input.