Jenks829
Well-Known Member
I attempted to prime my last beer with gyle.
I have failed before I even made it to bottling day.
I stored some of my unfermented wort in beer bottles to be used on bottling day to carb the beer; the bottles were capped just as you would when you bottle beer.
The bottles became pressurized and one exploded. When I noticed the broken bottle, I began slowly opening the rest of the bottles to release any pressure. Let me tell you, these puppies were SCREAMING foam. I cannot imagine the pressure that must have been inside. They were forcefully pushing foam for 15-20 seconds. The lid on one even resembled a mushroom.
My initial thought is an infection of some sort because two of the bottles were fine. When I opened them, there was no pressure and they smelled like wort. The pressurized bottles looked like some sort of funky beer when poured into a glass.
Does anyone else prime their beers with unfermented wort? If so, what is your process. I will briefly explain mine below.
After I open a homebrew and pour it into a glass, I rinse the bottle out to remove any sediment/yeast. Then I spray the inside of the bottle with a few shots of Starsan and cover with a small piece of aluminum foil and place in my garage until bottling day. I feel the Starsan will kill anything that wants to grow inside the bottle and the foil cover will prevent any new nasties from finding their way into my empty bottles. On bottling day I take 50 or so of these bottles, remove the foil and place them in the dishwasher and run them through a cycle with no soap. Then bottle my beer. I have never had any bottle bombs <knock wood> or noticeable infections.
I recently learned of priming beers with unfermented wort and I wanted to try it. I had no mason jars or anything else of the sort to store the unfermented wort in....but I did have empty beer bottles. So I filled up 4 empty bottles with the wort. The only difference from my usual bottling procedure was I DID NOT run those 4 bottles through the dishwasher. Instead, I went to the garage, took 4 empty aluminum foil covered bottles, rinsed them out with some Starsan and filled them with wort. Three weeks later and I am picking up shards of glass in my basement.
I have only been brewing for 10 months and this was my first attempt at gyle. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them. I am very acceptable to criticism, my feelings will not be hurt if something I say/do seems wrong.
I have failed before I even made it to bottling day.
I stored some of my unfermented wort in beer bottles to be used on bottling day to carb the beer; the bottles were capped just as you would when you bottle beer.
The bottles became pressurized and one exploded. When I noticed the broken bottle, I began slowly opening the rest of the bottles to release any pressure. Let me tell you, these puppies were SCREAMING foam. I cannot imagine the pressure that must have been inside. They were forcefully pushing foam for 15-20 seconds. The lid on one even resembled a mushroom.
My initial thought is an infection of some sort because two of the bottles were fine. When I opened them, there was no pressure and they smelled like wort. The pressurized bottles looked like some sort of funky beer when poured into a glass.
Does anyone else prime their beers with unfermented wort? If so, what is your process. I will briefly explain mine below.
After I open a homebrew and pour it into a glass, I rinse the bottle out to remove any sediment/yeast. Then I spray the inside of the bottle with a few shots of Starsan and cover with a small piece of aluminum foil and place in my garage until bottling day. I feel the Starsan will kill anything that wants to grow inside the bottle and the foil cover will prevent any new nasties from finding their way into my empty bottles. On bottling day I take 50 or so of these bottles, remove the foil and place them in the dishwasher and run them through a cycle with no soap. Then bottle my beer. I have never had any bottle bombs <knock wood> or noticeable infections.
I recently learned of priming beers with unfermented wort and I wanted to try it. I had no mason jars or anything else of the sort to store the unfermented wort in....but I did have empty beer bottles. So I filled up 4 empty bottles with the wort. The only difference from my usual bottling procedure was I DID NOT run those 4 bottles through the dishwasher. Instead, I went to the garage, took 4 empty aluminum foil covered bottles, rinsed them out with some Starsan and filled them with wort. Three weeks later and I am picking up shards of glass in my basement.
I have only been brewing for 10 months and this was my first attempt at gyle. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them. I am very acceptable to criticism, my feelings will not be hurt if something I say/do seems wrong.
