Spelaeus
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So... recently helped a friend with his first brew. He bottled just two days ago and wanted to open a few tonight for friends, being a bit eager. It was 4.6 gallons, FG had held steady for 1.5 weeks prior to bottling (a hair over 1.01). Being on the cautious side and neither of us being fans of high carbonation, I told him to use slightly under half a cup of sucrose for priming for roughly 2.3 volumes of CO2. The bottles were then allowed to sit upstairs in fairly warm temps (no AC and it's been hovering around 75F-80F) for the duration of those two days. I'd mentioned he should probably put them in his basement but... his decisions there. Anyway, opening the bottles today they were... not total gushing jets but they all fizzed over a bit. Though they don't seem super carbonated when drunk. I'm thinking that there may just be a bunch of CO2 out of solution due to the heat and lack of time that's causing this, but is this cause for concern? I've never had this issue with my own bottles, but I've never kept them so warm or rushed them so much either.