Mother Nature's Reminder...

[barnettcb]

So, I guess it was my turn for Mother Nature to remind me that sanitation is probably the single most important factor in brewing...
I have brewed a total of three 5-gallon batches of beer. The first two turned out really great. In fact, I submitted my second beer (brown porter, my personal recipe) to the Dixie Cup XXV homebrewing competition and got a score of 40 out of 50. :rockin:
My third batch was AHS's Special Bitter and I was really excited about it. The first bottle I tried (2 weeks bottle conditioning) was really astringent. So, I waited.... a week later, it was a bit less astringent but tasting odd. At 4 weeks, I still had cloudy beer in the bottles - now I was concerned, so I popped open a room-temperature bottle and within a couple seconds, I had a nice gush of carbonated beer speeding out of the top of my bottle.
So, I have been bitten by the gusher bug. I guess I got over-confident or was in a hurry or something. Needless to say, I will be meticulous in my next batch (thinking AHS's Fat Tire Clone).

So, here's to Mother Nature, and her ability to smack us humans back to reality. Cheers, I guess...

 

[944play]

In fact, I submitted my second beer (brown porter, my personal recipe) to the Dixie Cup XXV homebrewing competition and got a score of 40 out of 50. :rockin:

Sorry about the infection or whatever, but CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[zac]

Not an infection. Just room temp beer. Your beer is just fine!

 

[hopsalot]

I've been there, brewed a hefe in the summer and was just sloppy drunk and I live in south Texas, all the heat and the beer, things got out of control. Come time to try the bottled product the gusher whore was present. I popped open one and the bottle cap hit the ceiling. Quite a rush

 

[BarleyWater]

The gusher whore and I have met a couple times. All you can really do now is refridgerate tham all, and pour fast when you open them.