Bottling in 1 Gallon Container??

[rsmith179]

Gentlemen,

I'd like to start off by saying that these forums and the knowledge you all share is unlike any other! I've been a creeper here for quite a while but this is my first post. Let's get down to business...

While bottling my Saison last night, the fiance actually broke my bottler. Luckily, I was already about 3 3/4 gallons into bottling, so I didn't have too much beer lost. However, I did try to save some of the remaining beer in a 1 gallon glass jug. All of the priming sugar was already mixed in with the beer for about 2.5 volumes.

I'm wondering if any of you guys have ever put a whole gallon of beer into a jug. Did the beer carbonate correctly? With that amount of beer in the container, do I have to worry about excessive amounts of CO2 that may blow my bottle to pieces? Any input on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Revvy]

Most glass containers (and I'm assuming this is a wine bottle?) are not made to handle the pressure of bottle carbonation...If you look at the bottling in growler threads you'll see that several of those have gone boom...

If you are lucky the worst case scenario would be the the lid would fail before the glass did.

I would take every precaution against bottle bombs for the next 3 weeks and hope for the best.

 

[rsmith179]

Thanks for the quick response... Here's another thought though. I did go out today and buy TWO new bottlers. It has only been 24 hours since I bottled the other beers. Do you think it is too late to bottle that 1 gallon of beer into bottles now? I'm sure the yeasties eat that sugar up pretty quickly, so I'm not sure if enough residual sugars would produce the carbonation needed.