Hi all,
I recently found out the hard way that using 6.5L glass carboys for the primary fermenter is not a good idea!
I made a batch of Brew House Oktoberfest and a batch of Brew House Winterfest simultaneously, and the resulting blow off was equal to losing about 3 liters from each carboy.
That sucked.
Today I finally bottled both batches in 650ml glass bottles, and I'm wondering if I'm going to end up with bottle bombs since I did not decrease the priming sugar at all even though the volume of wort was only 20 liters or so as opposed to the regular 23 liter yield.
I used the Munton's beer conditioner package for each batch which is intended for a 23L batch, should I have removed some of it before adding it to the wort for priming at bottling, or will it be ok adding the beer conditioner to only 20L or so of wort?
I'm hoping that having 3 or so liters less of wort and still adding the package of priming/conditioner intended for 23L wont cause the bottles to explode, what do you think?
Should I be worried?
Thanks!
Chris
I recently found out the hard way that using 6.5L glass carboys for the primary fermenter is not a good idea!
I made a batch of Brew House Oktoberfest and a batch of Brew House Winterfest simultaneously, and the resulting blow off was equal to losing about 3 liters from each carboy.
That sucked.
Today I finally bottled both batches in 650ml glass bottles, and I'm wondering if I'm going to end up with bottle bombs since I did not decrease the priming sugar at all even though the volume of wort was only 20 liters or so as opposed to the regular 23 liter yield.
I used the Munton's beer conditioner package for each batch which is intended for a 23L batch, should I have removed some of it before adding it to the wort for priming at bottling, or will it be ok adding the beer conditioner to only 20L or so of wort?
I'm hoping that having 3 or so liters less of wort and still adding the package of priming/conditioner intended for 23L wont cause the bottles to explode, what do you think?
Should I be worried?
Thanks!
Chris