blisterman
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Ironically, since I just started a thread on bottle bombs, I have just realised that I made a stupid mistake and added far too much glucose powder to my beer.
Being European I usually brew in metric, but I was following an American recipe for a hefe weizen, which called for half a pound of priming sugar. I remembered the rough conversion rate being 1 pound = 2kg, whereas,as I've just discovered it's actually the other way around, so I added a kilo to 5 gallons, where I should have added 250g.
It's been in the bottles a day. What should I do now? Wait a couple days, open the bottles to release the pressure, and recap them? Throw out the whole batch? Or leave it as it is?
Being European I usually brew in metric, but I was following an American recipe for a hefe weizen, which called for half a pound of priming sugar. I remembered the rough conversion rate being 1 pound = 2kg, whereas,as I've just discovered it's actually the other way around, so I added a kilo to 5 gallons, where I should have added 250g.
It's been in the bottles a day. What should I do now? Wait a couple days, open the bottles to release the pressure, and recap them? Throw out the whole batch? Or leave it as it is?