Bottle bombs?

[HeroJeff]

I just cracked open my first beer of my most recent batch. It's only been in the bottle for six days but curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to see how it's coming along.
It's fizzed up and the foam overflowed from the bottle. Not a whole lot, but enough that I had to hold it over the sink to avoid making a mess.
When I tasted it there is still a sweet taste. Perhaps there's still some of the sugar I used for priming left in the beer.
Mu question is do I have potential bottle bombs on my hand? Will the yeast continue to turn the sugar into gas and cause my bottles to explode or will they just be over carbonated and fizz up every time I open one?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[BigTerp]

How much priming sugar did you use and how big of a batch was it? Also what was your FG? Without that information I can't really say for sure. But I bet it has more to do with the beer being warm than it does over carbonation. CO2 does not dissolve in warm beer nearly as good as cold beer. So a warm bottle with have much more head pressure than a cold bottle leading to what you just basically explained. I'm assuming here that you opened the bottle warm?

 

[bruteforce]

Did you chill the bottle first? My belgians all foam like that unless they're decently chilled.

 

[KrausenCrazedCanuck]

I think you should be fine.
I switched over to plastic a couple years ago. super cheap and the bottles are indestructible.

 

[HeroJeff]

I used 50 grams (1.67 ounces) of table sugar for my 18 liter (4.75 US gallon) batch.
Unfortunately I can't tell you what the gravity was. My hydrometer broke on my last batch and I haven't got a replacement yet.
I put the bottle in the fridge to chill at about 4:00pm and opened it at about 9:30pm. So it wasn't exactly warm. But it wasn't in the fridge for all that long either.

 

[bransona]

I used 50 grams (1.67 ounces) of table sugar for my 18 liter (4.75 US gallon) batch.
Unfortunately I can't tell you what the gravity was. My hydrometer broke on my last batch and I haven't got a replacement yet.
I put the bottle in the fridge to chill at about 4:00pm and opened it at about 9:30pm. So it wasn't exactly warm. But it wasn't in the fridge for all that long either.

A longer cold conditioning will probably help. Give one a few days, or, if they're ready, pop em all in the cooler. Cold conditioning helps dissolve CO2 into solution. It'll help head retention, as well.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

I think you should be fine.
I switched over to plastic a couple years ago. super cheap and the bottles are indestructible.

Challenge accepted!

 

[Sailingeric]

Did you chill the bottle first? My belgians all foam like that unless they're decently chilled.

Same here. I just had a bottle blow out the bottom of the bottle in my garage, it has been in bottle for over a year before it wanted to be free.