avoiding bottle bombs?

[schadelh]

So I am making a batch of hard rootbeer. The base has been prepared (fermented honey and light malt up to ~ 5% ABV), so now it is time to sweeten and flavor it.

Up to now, I figured I would throw some campden tablets in to kill the yeast, add rootbeer flavoring, sweeten to taste and keg carbonate.

I have now realized that people carbonate sweetened sodas with yeast (makes sense). What I am wondering is how to keep the drink sweet, and not blow up bottles. How do you do it?

 

[PintOfBitter]

I've been able to pasteurize bottles of my ginger ale. If you're interested, I described my process here:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/results-my-first-bottle-pasteurization-experiment-121101/
(the opening post is scary, but I did eventually get the process down.)

hope this helps.

 

[r3bol]

Have a look at http://www.chow.com/assets/2006/09/rootbeer_popup.html they use a plastic control bottle to check the pressure.