Pop goes the bottle
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It's raining glass in my kitchen! What to do about exploding bottles?
So it was our first time with homebrew... and now glass bottles are exploding willy-nilly in our kitchen cupboard! Later I'll ask what we did wrong, but for now, all I would like to know is WHAT we are supposed to do now?
On the 12th and 13th days after bottling, 4 of our bottles exploded. It's now the 15th day and nothing else has happened. We'd like to try the beer, but we're too scared to open the cupboard and put it in the fridge! We're considering getting geared up in gloves and sunnies and other protective stuff and opening them all, but is opening them really necessary? We put in so much effort to just waste it.
I think the reason for the explosions was overfilling some of the bottles. I know it could also have been incomplete primary fermentation -we didn't have a hydrometer - but we did leave it for 2-3 days after the airlock stopped bubbling, 7 days in total from when fermentation started. (I don't know about other possible causes? Probably many!)
So, what to do? Open them all? Just wait to see if more explode? Pick a not-so full bottle and put it in the fridge?
Thanks for any advice you can give.
So it was our first time with homebrew... and now glass bottles are exploding willy-nilly in our kitchen cupboard! Later I'll ask what we did wrong, but for now, all I would like to know is WHAT we are supposed to do now?
On the 12th and 13th days after bottling, 4 of our bottles exploded. It's now the 15th day and nothing else has happened. We'd like to try the beer, but we're too scared to open the cupboard and put it in the fridge! We're considering getting geared up in gloves and sunnies and other protective stuff and opening them all, but is opening them really necessary? We put in so much effort to just waste it.
I think the reason for the explosions was overfilling some of the bottles. I know it could also have been incomplete primary fermentation -we didn't have a hydrometer - but we did leave it for 2-3 days after the airlock stopped bubbling, 7 days in total from when fermentation started. (I don't know about other possible causes? Probably many!)
So, what to do? Open them all? Just wait to see if more explode? Pick a not-so full bottle and put it in the fridge?
Thanks for any advice you can give.