Palmetto33
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I have had a few anxious questions regarding my first batch in the past few weeks, but this one is really getting to me. The last thread was my concern of not seeing any signs of carbing yet even though it's only been a few days since bottling (Sunday).
Now, however, I've possibly got the other problem.
Brown ale- Ingredient kit says OG 1.045 FG 1.010-1.012
I got the OG, and it was correct. Took a reading when going to secondary after a week and it was (based on my reading) 1.014. I went ahead and racked despite the .002 discrepancy. Then after two weeks in the secondary I primed and then took another reading, and I swear it was 1.018-1.020. I blamed it on the ingested beers and went ahead and bottled.
It's been 3 days since bottling and I've been reading up; had to check again to see if I had misread or if it was really that far off. So, I opened a beer and it already had a slight "hiss" to it when opened. I took like 5 hydro readings over the course of about 15 minutes; 1.020-1.022. Could this be due to unfermented priming sugar?
What's going on? I've obviously misread it somewhere and I was stone cold sober tonight. Is it the carbonation pushing up on it? Does the wine thief have too small a diameter? The hydrometer has a real tough time sitting in the very middle of it, but when it does, straight to 1.020.
I could go on all night.
Are the bottles gonna bomb?
Now, however, I've possibly got the other problem.
Brown ale- Ingredient kit says OG 1.045 FG 1.010-1.012
I got the OG, and it was correct. Took a reading when going to secondary after a week and it was (based on my reading) 1.014. I went ahead and racked despite the .002 discrepancy. Then after two weeks in the secondary I primed and then took another reading, and I swear it was 1.018-1.020. I blamed it on the ingested beers and went ahead and bottled.
It's been 3 days since bottling and I've been reading up; had to check again to see if I had misread or if it was really that far off. So, I opened a beer and it already had a slight "hiss" to it when opened. I took like 5 hydro readings over the course of about 15 minutes; 1.020-1.022. Could this be due to unfermented priming sugar?
What's going on? I've obviously misread it somewhere and I was stone cold sober tonight. Is it the carbonation pushing up on it? Does the wine thief have too small a diameter? The hydrometer has a real tough time sitting in the very middle of it, but when it does, straight to 1.020.
I could go on all night.
Are the bottles gonna bomb?