FensterBos
Well-Known Member
One minute I feel like I've got this home brewing thing down and the next moment something goes boom.
I tried a bottle of my holiday ale a little early last week just to ensure it was moving in the right directly. I popped it open and poured half a glass for myself and half a glass for my buddy. The pours gave a foamy head, but it wasn't anything I was worried about. I popped open another one last night and the photo pretty much shows you what happened.
So, what causes this sort of thing? I mainly bottle in 22 oz., but I was a little low on supplies so I used some 12 oz. bottles I saved from 6-packs. I bottled the 12 oz. toward the end of the batch so could there have been more bottling sugar toward the bottom, thus resulting in an overly carbonated beer? By the way, I've definitely learned my lesson and will be boiling the priming sugar to dissolve it prior to adding to the bottling bucket.
I tried a bottle of my holiday ale a little early last week just to ensure it was moving in the right directly. I popped it open and poured half a glass for myself and half a glass for my buddy. The pours gave a foamy head, but it wasn't anything I was worried about. I popped open another one last night and the photo pretty much shows you what happened.
So, what causes this sort of thing? I mainly bottle in 22 oz., but I was a little low on supplies so I used some 12 oz. bottles I saved from 6-packs. I bottled the 12 oz. toward the end of the batch so could there have been more bottling sugar toward the bottom, thus resulting in an overly carbonated beer? By the way, I've definitely learned my lesson and will be boiling the priming sugar to dissolve it prior to adding to the bottling bucket.