alestateyall
Well-Known Member
Recently I brewed a Two Hearted clone. It was great. The recipe called for 1oz dry hops. I added the dry hops directly to fermenter (no muslin bag). When it was time to bottle a fair amount of hops and trub made it into my bottling bucket.
No problem though. The first 40+ bottles seemed not to get any hops bits. The last 3 bottles got a significant amount of floating hops bits in the bottles. I marked the caps of these 3 bottles intending them to only be drank by me. I didn't want to serve my friends beer with floating hops bits. The hops sank in the bottles in about a week.
Now I have drank all but about 6 of these beers. They were great. Perfect carbonation (about 1 finger head throughout drinking the glass). Except for these last 3 which were marked as having hops in the bottle. I opened them all yesterday. All 3 were bottle bombs. I poured each of them after the explosion (about 40% remained). They smelled great but had tons of yeast chunks after the pressure release. I looked in the bottle after rinsing and the bottle was clean. I have had bottle bombs before from using an unclean bottle. Those usually have black spots (maybe bits of decomposed label) that needs a bottle brush to remove. These bottles looked great, no black spots. PS. I don't get lots of bottle bombs but over the years have had a few here and there.
When I bottled these I was being greedy. I wanted every last bit of beer bottled. I think these 3 bottles may have also gotten a significant amount of flocculated yeast in them.
Any ideas what could have caused these bottle bombs? I am thinking maybe decomposing hops or decomposing yeast. But, I really don't know.
Thanks!
Recipe here: http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/recipe/cb9f6102/shoultzmeyer-brewery-third-date-ipa
No problem though. The first 40+ bottles seemed not to get any hops bits. The last 3 bottles got a significant amount of floating hops bits in the bottles. I marked the caps of these 3 bottles intending them to only be drank by me. I didn't want to serve my friends beer with floating hops bits. The hops sank in the bottles in about a week.
Now I have drank all but about 6 of these beers. They were great. Perfect carbonation (about 1 finger head throughout drinking the glass). Except for these last 3 which were marked as having hops in the bottle. I opened them all yesterday. All 3 were bottle bombs. I poured each of them after the explosion (about 40% remained). They smelled great but had tons of yeast chunks after the pressure release. I looked in the bottle after rinsing and the bottle was clean. I have had bottle bombs before from using an unclean bottle. Those usually have black spots (maybe bits of decomposed label) that needs a bottle brush to remove. These bottles looked great, no black spots. PS. I don't get lots of bottle bombs but over the years have had a few here and there.
When I bottled these I was being greedy. I wanted every last bit of beer bottled. I think these 3 bottles may have also gotten a significant amount of flocculated yeast in them.
Any ideas what could have caused these bottle bombs? I am thinking maybe decomposing hops or decomposing yeast. But, I really don't know.
Thanks!
Recipe here: http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/recipe/cb9f6102/shoultzmeyer-brewery-third-date-ipa