Liquidzorch
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Hello. Today I made a newbie mistake. I brewed a Bavarian weisbier, and today was bottling day. I used an online calculator to determine how much dextrose to use but I put in more liters that I actually got out. Not thinking about it, I finished bottling and went about my business, then it came to me, I had used too much priming sugar in glass bottles. So going back to the calculator, I input the amount of bottled beer I actually got (multiplying the beer bottle capacity by the amount I got bottled, very little was left in the bottling bucket as waste), and I get that I am at about 3.8 vol of CO2. So I start to read online and find some tips and used one:
Put a coin on top of the bottle cap, use a bottle opener to barely lift until I can hear gas escaping, hold it until foam reaches the cap, then re-seal.
This seems to have worked like a charm, but I wanted to see if anyone can say if I should do it once again, or with this one gas escape I have avoided issues.
More elaborate details:
- Beer FG had not moved for 3 days, so I bottled on the 4th day.
- Was trying to prime for 3.3 Vol of CO2 thinking I had 15 liters, but only got out around 12.2.
- Added 160g of dextrose to a tiny amount of water, boiled it, and added it to the bottleing bucket, then poured the beer over it.
- Added 38g of dextrose to a second 1 gal batch (test batch), calculating for 3.5 liters, but only got out 2.5 liters, so I got to about 4.2 vol CO2.
- About 5 hours after bottling, I have released some of the gas (it was already very presurized) The most vigorous part of the fermentation of this beer was the first 12 hours, so I decided to release the gas only 5 hours into priming.
- Most of the bottles being used are the kind that you return to the store to refill, so they are kind of thick. I only used 3 of the thin bottles that are meant for 1 time use.
Any advice as to if I might need to recarb, or might need to decarb the beer again would be helpful. I normally calculate for about 2.2 vol of CO2, but they normally come out a little under cabonated in my opinion, and being a weisbier, I really wanted a good carbonation, that's why I went with 3.3 vol.
Thanks in advance
Put a coin on top of the bottle cap, use a bottle opener to barely lift until I can hear gas escaping, hold it until foam reaches the cap, then re-seal.
This seems to have worked like a charm, but I wanted to see if anyone can say if I should do it once again, or with this one gas escape I have avoided issues.
More elaborate details:
- Beer FG had not moved for 3 days, so I bottled on the 4th day.
- Was trying to prime for 3.3 Vol of CO2 thinking I had 15 liters, but only got out around 12.2.
- Added 160g of dextrose to a tiny amount of water, boiled it, and added it to the bottleing bucket, then poured the beer over it.
- Added 38g of dextrose to a second 1 gal batch (test batch), calculating for 3.5 liters, but only got out 2.5 liters, so I got to about 4.2 vol CO2.
- About 5 hours after bottling, I have released some of the gas (it was already very presurized) The most vigorous part of the fermentation of this beer was the first 12 hours, so I decided to release the gas only 5 hours into priming.
- Most of the bottles being used are the kind that you return to the store to refill, so they are kind of thick. I only used 3 of the thin bottles that are meant for 1 time use.
Any advice as to if I might need to recarb, or might need to decarb the beer again would be helpful. I normally calculate for about 2.2 vol of CO2, but they normally come out a little under cabonated in my opinion, and being a weisbier, I really wanted a good carbonation, that's why I went with 3.3 vol.
Thanks in advance
