First Glass Bottles

[Pringler]

Been brewing all grain for about 18 months, up 'till now have only bottled in PET. Would squeeze the air out while capping, they would carbonate and plump the plastic bottles. Never had an issue.
I finally got enough longneck bottles saved up, so last weekend I bottled a batch of pale. The OG was 1.047, FG was 1.015, gravity was steady at FG for 4 days so confident it was well finished. Primed with almost 5 oz of Dextrose as usual for my 5.5 gal volume in the bottling bucket
Anyway, without being able to see the bottles 'pooch out', I'm nervous.
Anybody have any comforting words to share?

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Been brewing all grain for about 18 months, up 'till now have only bottled in PET. Would squeeze the air out while capping, they would carbonate and plump the plastic bottles. Never had an issue.
I finally got enough longneck bottles saved up, so last weekend I bottled a batch of pale. The OG was 1.047, FG was 1.015, gravity was steady at FG for 4 days so confident it was well finished. Primed with almost 5 oz of Dextrose as usual for my 5.5 gal volume in the bottling bucket
Anyway, without being able to see the bottles 'pooch out', I'm nervous.
Anybody have any comforting words to share?

Never had a batch fail to carbonate...have had an occasional gusher and few with less than optimal carbonation but none that were dumpers.

Leave it for 10 days at 70f or so, take on bottle and chill to drinking temp for at east 24 hours and test. Repeat every 3-5 days until your are happy with the carbonation then move to a cooler spot if available.

That being said, 1.015 is relatively high for such a low OG beer. Is it by design? I do similar with with low grav stout with lots of specialty grains so I am not judging, just checking.

 

[Pringler]

That being said, 1.015 is relatively high for such a low OG beer. Is it by design? I do similar with with low grav stout with lots of specialty grains so I am not judging, just checking.

I mashed on the high side on purpose, about 155F, more as an experiment than anything to try for more body.

Thanks for the advice, good stuff.