Exploding Bottles!

[flars]

Start checking the remaining bottles for high carbonation pressure. Slowly ease the bail open, and be ready to quickly reseal, to see how much carbonation pressure escapes. Some bottles may give you a light hiss. Some bottles may give you a sharp, long hiss. Mark the bottles with low pressure. Different pressure levels may be an indication the priming solution was not mixed evenly through out the bottling bucket.
Go back to the bottles, which had high pressure, in two days and do another release. Do this every two days until the pressure level seems right.

Start out wearing gloves, heavy jacket, and eye protection just in case pressure levels are extreme. You don't want one blowing with unprotected body parts close to the bottle.

The exploding bottle could also have been the result of infection in that bottle. Infected bottles may gush when you release pressure.

 

[glenn514]

In April 2014, I had several bottles of Bourbon Barrel Porter explode in my cellar. Fortunately...or UNfortunately...the exploding bottles led me to discover that my sewer line from the house to the street had collapsed!

Following the bottle explosions, I carefully took the remaining bottles into the back yard, pointed the cap at the wood fence and quickly opened the bottles. Those caps shot a good 20-25 feet!

glenn514