Advice on a root beer recipe I just bottled

[Brittney M]

Just bottled the “grandpa willies hard root beer” this site has. Completely new to brewing still. After about 8-9 hours of carbing in bottles, they were all actually over carbed. Do I just need to uncap and recap as I did or is there an infection. As I’m not sure what these “gusher” terms are.
For example, I tried open my test bottle and it all quickly rises to top so I rescrew cap. To be sure I tried beer bottle and it all started over pouring the sides.

I was very careful to sanitize everything. The only thing I can think of is when I realized I forgot the vanilla and opened all the bottles, put in the 1/10ths in each and recapped.

Any advice greatly appreciated

Also, like others that mentioned in that thread. My FG was at 1.018 if that helps with anything.

 

[z-bob]

Just bottled the “grandpa willies hard root beer” this site has. Completely new to brewing still. After about 8-9 hours of carbing in bottles, they were all actually over carbed. Do I just need to uncap and recap as I did or is there an infection. As I’m not sure what these “gusher” terms are.
For example, I tried open my test bottle and it all quickly rises to top so I rescrew cap. To be sure I tried beer bottle and it all started over pouring the sides.

I was very careful to sanitize everything. The only thing I can think of is when I realized I forgot the vanilla and opened all the bottles, put in the 1/10ths in each and recapped.

Any advice greatly appreciated

Also, like others that mentioned in that thread. My FG was at 1.018 if that helps with anything.

Got a link to the recipe? (I'm lazy) The only bottle bombs I've ever had was with root beer, made from McCormick's RB Concentrate, a ton of sugar, and fresh bread yeast back when fresh yeast was still a thing.

What happens if you chill them in the fridge down to about 35 degrees? That should reduce the pressure and *almost* stop the fermentation. It might be ready to drink by tomorrow.

 

[Brittney M]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/grandpa-willies-hard-root-beer.419417/

I used the McCormick’s as well. Was planning to pasteurize the bottles til I realized they had too much carb in such a short amount of time