SaintAnky
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This weekend I experienced my first (and hopefully only) bottle bomb. I'm still trying to get my head around it, and I'm not sure what went wrong.
Overcarbonation? I don't think so. Fermentation was complete, and verified with hydrometer readings. I used a reasonable amount of priming sugar, 5oz for 5 gallons. I stirred the beer into the priming solution in the bottling bucket (though I've skipped this step in previous batches and never had a bomb). The bottles I've sampled so far have been evenly carbed, and they don't seem overcarbed at all after about 5 weeks in the bottle.
Infection? I've heard that this can cause bottle bombs. As I said before, I've sampled a few bottles out of this batch (OK, about a dozen) and they were really, really tasty. Maybe the best I've ever made. :rockin: The batch is not infected.
So unless I'm missing something, it's down to this: either there's some kind of infection in the one bottle that exploded, or maybe there was something wrong with the bottle itself -- maybe a crack that broke under pressure?
Any ideas what else might have gone wrong?
Overcarbonation? I don't think so. Fermentation was complete, and verified with hydrometer readings. I used a reasonable amount of priming sugar, 5oz for 5 gallons. I stirred the beer into the priming solution in the bottling bucket (though I've skipped this step in previous batches and never had a bomb). The bottles I've sampled so far have been evenly carbed, and they don't seem overcarbed at all after about 5 weeks in the bottle.
Infection? I've heard that this can cause bottle bombs. As I said before, I've sampled a few bottles out of this batch (OK, about a dozen) and they were really, really tasty. Maybe the best I've ever made. :rockin: The batch is not infected.
So unless I'm missing something, it's down to this: either there's some kind of infection in the one bottle that exploded, or maybe there was something wrong with the bottle itself -- maybe a crack that broke under pressure?
Any ideas what else might have gone wrong?