I'm new to Homebrew talk and to homebrewing generally. I just bottled my third batch. It was the recipe for Brewer's Best Chocolate Milk Stout, but I bought the ingredients individually since I couldn't find the kit close by and didn't have much time to get it before brew day. I did modify it a little in that I used 8 oz of cocoa powder with 10 min left in the boil rather than cacao nibs in secondary. My question is whether anyone with more experience thinks I may get bottle bombs and here's why I'm nervous. My OG was about 1.052 (taken straight from the fermentation bucket and not a sample tube since I don't have one). I fermented in primary for 3 1/2 weeks and then bottled. At bottling FG was about 1.022...seems a little high since I was expecting around 1.015-1.017 according to the recipe. My OG was a few points higher than the recipe said, though. And I did have 8 oz of cocoa powder that I added during the boil, so maybe it was a bit more viscous and higher OG because of the cocoa? I was only at my parents' house where I brew for a few days and wanted to bottle so I went ahead and did it. I carbonated with the standard priming sugar packet you get at a brew store (5 oz I think) and I had about 4.75 or a little more gallons of beer in the bucket once I racked off the trub, but not quite 5 gallons. It's been in the bottles for about 1 week and 2 days and is already at about optimal carbonation with a rapidly forming head. That seems really fast to me and makes me worry about bottle bombs. My first beer was a ~5.5% ABV English Brown Ale that took 3-4 weeks to carb up properly. My second was a 9% Belgian Tripel that took a few months to carb up, which I understand. So this seems super fast.
So what do you think? Should I be nervous?
So what do you think? Should I be nervous?
