Priming question

[sjramm]

I got a Brewer's best kit (5 gallon batch) and started brewing. I lost some of the wort during transfer to the carboy and then lost even more moving it into my bottling bucket. I added in the priming sugar mix and then the wort on top of that. When the mix was complete is was about 3.5 - 4 gallons in the bucket. Is this within the range where I could probably see a lot of overcarb and bombs? I didn't change the amount priming sugar because I added that first. Is there anything I can do if I already went ahead and bottled everything? If you see you may have too much priming sugar, can you leave more or less headspace to compensate.

Thanks

 

[unionrdr]

If you bottled them already,not much can be done. Keep'em in a tupperware tub or the like so no one gets hurt if they do blow. As long as the beer was at a stable FG,they may be ok. Wheat ales see high carbonation of 3 or more,so that's why I think they might be ok. Fridge them after 4 weeks or so for at least a week to gwet that co2 into solution. The more gas is left in the head space,the more foam over you'll likely get.