Hello everyone. I just recently got into home brewing and I got bored one night and decided to experiment. The results turned out better than I expected but I am worried about bottle bombs. Here is the story. I had a spare carboy that was sitting unused and I decided to try and make the absolute simplest ferment that I could. Please keep in mind that my intention was to do this wrong from the beginning. I basically just tossed a completely unmeasured amount of Walmart brand bread yeast in with a gallon of Musselmans apple juice. I was expecting something barely drinkable that I would taste and then throw away but I got a really good hard cider out of it instead. Starting gravity was 1.045 and it finished at 1.005 after two weeks. I had planned to rack it today but I only had 1 carboy and a steel pot so the plan was to rack to the pot, clean out the carboy and then refill it but I dropped the carboy in between and shattered it. This meant I had to bottle it immediately instead but now I am worried about the dreaded bottle bomb. I have swing top bottles so I am just considering popping the tops every day for a while but does anyone else have any suggestions on what I can do?
TLDR: I made prison wine and it actually turned out good but I broke my carboy before I could rack and cold crash it and had to bottle early. How do I keep my swingtop bottles from exploding in the fridge.
Thanks.
TLDR: I made prison wine and it actually turned out good but I broke my carboy before I could rack and cold crash it and had to bottle early. How do I keep my swingtop bottles from exploding in the fridge.
Thanks.