I messed up my priming pretty bad and have an idea on how to fix it that I want to float past you guys. What happened was I mixed up enough priming sugar for a 3 and half gallon batch, but my batch of beer was only around 2 3/4 gallons. I had planned to make the batch a little more carbonated than usual, but with the smaller size ended up way overdoing it. My calculations tell me that the batch based on the amount of sugar used should have 3.6 volumes of CO2.
I was thinking the easiest fix would be to simply recap all the beers at some point. A couple things concern me however, first off will this work? Will the beer foam over and cause a massive amount of loss? Will there not be enough C02 released to make it worth it? My other question to you guys is when do you think the best time to try this would be and what do you think would be the best way to go about it? First option would be to just open the beers, second would be to take a nail or something and pierce the cap, thereby attempting to control the sudden release of CO2 in suspension.
Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated.
I was thinking the easiest fix would be to simply recap all the beers at some point. A couple things concern me however, first off will this work? Will the beer foam over and cause a massive amount of loss? Will there not be enough C02 released to make it worth it? My other question to you guys is when do you think the best time to try this would be and what do you think would be the best way to go about it? First option would be to just open the beers, second would be to take a nail or something and pierce the cap, thereby attempting to control the sudden release of CO2 in suspension.
Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated.