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Temperature was always constantly hot, so temp might not be it. Perhaps we did add too much priming sugar, since we lost a lot of volume passing over from the fermenter to the bottling bucket. Our bottling procedure is as follows: 1. Add priming sugar to bottling bucket 2. Siphon from carboy...

Added 4oz priming sugar to the bottling bucket right before bottling. Everything was washed with StarSan so it's weird that it would be contamination. The weirdest thing is that the beers were fine for the first month or so, but later on they started fizzing up horribly when opening.

Thanks a lot for the reply! Do you think it might have anything to do with the temperature it was stored in as well? The bottles took a lot of heat. -Never mind, just saw twisted gray's response

So I brewed up an IPA a few months ago and it was pretty nice, that is, the first time I tasted it a few weeks after bottling. There was a problem with it though, the bottles had a LOT of sediment. What's more, these bottle's started blowing up the second time I opened them, a couple of weeks...

So I had an idea for this "Girl Scout Cookie" type of recipe and came up with this. Not sure if it has too much stuff in it, perhaps it might do well without the Cinammon. This is BIAB, by the way. Boil: 7 Gal Batch: 5 Gal Brewing Time: 60min Temp: 100 (when malts go in) 150 (until...