Hey gang,
My last Porter, I had to dump, gushers as each was opened and had one bottle bomb. I know for a fact that I measured the priming sugar as my brother even remembered me doing it and knew the amount, 5oz for 5 gal. The only thing I can think of is my scale wasn't zeroed when I measured.
My Red Ale just 2 weeks in the bottle is also way over carb'd. It tastes fantastic at this point. I twice measured the sugar, 3/4 cup then straight to the scale at 4oz spot on. Both brews were 4 weeks in the fermentor before bottling.
Both finished up at 1.018 and I use Beer Smith for priming calculations
Where to start looking for the over carb issue?
Toy4Rick
My last Porter, I had to dump, gushers as each was opened and had one bottle bomb. I know for a fact that I measured the priming sugar as my brother even remembered me doing it and knew the amount, 5oz for 5 gal. The only thing I can think of is my scale wasn't zeroed when I measured.
My Red Ale just 2 weeks in the bottle is also way over carb'd. It tastes fantastic at this point. I twice measured the sugar, 3/4 cup then straight to the scale at 4oz spot on. Both brews were 4 weeks in the fermentor before bottling.
Both finished up at 1.018 and I use Beer Smith for priming calculations
Where to start looking for the over carb issue?
Toy4Rick