Carbonation Failure

dlittle29 · Sep 21, 2011

Just thought i would share my great experience i had last night and this morning. I made a specialty wheat beer a week ago, and was planning on transfering to a seconday yesturday (2 gallons of the five gallon batch i am experiementing with dry hopping it in 1 gallon measures for 2 different experiements other wise i wouldn't bother transfering). Well i took the gravity reading and it read 1.011 which is bottling time for this beer. So i went to making my priming solution. Not until after i had caped the last bottle did i realise that i used 5 gallons worth of priming solution for the 3 gallons of beer that i was bottling (the other two gallons are being dry hopped like i said above). So i decided i would just open up the bottles in the morning and let out some of the CO2 close and repeat for the first 3 days then let them sit and finish up. Over night enough carbonation built up that when i opened the first bottle a 4 ft gyser erupted from the bottle... good by 3 gallons of perfectly delicious beer (if not over carbonated) beer!

thughes · Sep 21, 2011

Chill them first before opening, to avoid the gusher.

flyfisherwes · Sep 21, 2011

dlittle29 said:
Just thought i would share my great experience i had last night and this morning. I made a specialty wheat beer a week ago, and was planning on transfering to a seconday yesturday (2 gallons of the five gallon batch i am experiementing with dry hopping it in 1 gallon measures for 2 different experiements other wise i wouldn't bother transfering). Well i took the gravity reading and it read 1.011 which is bottling time for this beer. So i went to making my priming solution. Not until after i had caped the last bottle did i realise that i used 5 gallons worth of priming solution for the 3 gallons of beer that i was bottling (the other two gallons are being dry hopped like i said above). So i decided i would just open up the bottles in the morning and let out some of the CO2 close and repeat for the first 3 days then let them sit and finish up. Over night enough carbonation built up that when i opened the first bottle a 4 ft gyser erupted from the bottle... good by 3 gallons of perfectly delicious beer (if not over carbonated) beer!

Get it really cold then open it slowly letting out some carb a little at a time if u can then let Italy to flatten a bit before u drink it pour it in a pitcher or something. Or mail it to me and I will drink it ;D

flyfisherwes · Sep 21, 2011

Edit Double posted

dlittle29 · Sep 21, 2011

Yeah i will be cold crashing them as soon as i get home from work today, the only bad part is, it's hard to open them slowly because they are the .5 liter lock top bottles, lol looks like i will be drinking over a bucket!