Hey all-
I brewed my first all grain beer about a month ago. Bottled it 2 weeks ago and just opened a few to see how things were going. The first two beers I picked both gave a big hiss and gushed out. They were very highly carbonated, similar to champagne. I picked a third one and opened it without problem. It tasted fine (wouldn't expect it to be finished after two weeks in the bottle).
I think I know the cause: when I was siphoning into the bottling bucket I poured the priming solution in halfway through the process but forgot to stir it. So it seems that I'm going to have some highly carbonated beers and some barely carbonated ones. So I have two questions:
1) Is is possible that this is something worse like an infection? I'm assuming it's related to priming since it's uneven across bottles and I know I forgot to stir it in
2) Is there any chance that after a few weeks in the fridge the carbonation will even out?
Thanks!
I brewed my first all grain beer about a month ago. Bottled it 2 weeks ago and just opened a few to see how things were going. The first two beers I picked both gave a big hiss and gushed out. They were very highly carbonated, similar to champagne. I picked a third one and opened it without problem. It tasted fine (wouldn't expect it to be finished after two weeks in the bottle).
I think I know the cause: when I was siphoning into the bottling bucket I poured the priming solution in halfway through the process but forgot to stir it. So it seems that I'm going to have some highly carbonated beers and some barely carbonated ones. So I have two questions:
1) Is is possible that this is something worse like an infection? I'm assuming it's related to priming since it's uneven across bottles and I know I forgot to stir it in
2) Is there any chance that after a few weeks in the fridge the carbonation will even out?
Thanks!