single gusher

[jdblant80]

Just received a score sheet back from a competition and I'm a little curious for some input.

I submitted an IPA I had brewed about 1 month prior. I force carbed in a keg and bottled about 18 with a beer gun. Bottles sat about 2 weeks at ambient in basement (~65°) before I shipped to the competition.

I just received my score sheet back today and was surprised to find it was reported to be a gusher and difficult to judge.

I was surprised since I have opened several of the other bottles that were bottled at the same time with nothing similar. Could this be an infection in a single bottle? All bottles were dunked in starsan before bottling. I've never had an infected bottle before.

Any input would be appreciated. Was this just really bad luck in the bottle I pulled for the competition?

 

[day_trippr]

Maybe they dropped the bottle?

Was there enough left for the judges to note any characters present - like off flavors or aroma? Or did the whole bottle go up in a geyser?

Cheers!

 

[jdblant80]

Must have been some left. Stated there was little hop aroma and that it was a bit worty like it was under-attenuated. The citra hop aroma definately come through on my other bottles and the attenuation was fine (og 1.066/ fg 1.014).

 

[MachineShopBrewing]

I would bet that the bottles may have been mixed up and the beer that was scored as yours was not yours. I have received an award for a beer before that was in a category I didn't even enter.

 

[SwampassJ]

It's possible you had a bad bottle or they swapped it by accident or dropped it. I have at least 1 gusher in every batch. Pisses me off when I pop one and walk 3 feet to get a glass just to turn around to see beer running down the cabinets.

 

[ayoungrad]

I have had only one gusher (so far). It was definitely an infection. I could smell it and the sediment was off as well.

A single isolated gusher is almost certainly an infection.

I bet you had one slightly unsanitized bottle. And they got it.

 

[rico567]

Just received a score sheet back from a competition and I'm a little curious for some input.

I submitted an IPA I had brewed about 1 month prior. I force carbed in a keg and bottled about 18 with a beer gun. Bottles sat about 2 weeks at ambient in basement (~65°) before I shipped to the competition.

I just received my score sheet back today and was surprised to find it was reported to be a gusher and difficult to judge.

I was surprised since I have opened several of the other bottles that were bottled at the same time with nothing similar. Could this be an infection in a single bottle? All bottles were dunked in starsan before bottling. I've never had an infected bottle before.

Any input would be appreciated. Was this just really bad luck in the bottle I pulled for the competition?

You may have just been the victim of some bad, bad luck. I recently opened a bottle from a batch of amber ale that came a gusher, and none of the other bottles in that batch (or any previous batch as far back as I can remember) did. I'll probably never know why that one bottle was a gusher, and you won't know why yours did, either. The likeliest explanation, of course, is that there was some sort of contamination in that bottle or on the cap you used.

 

[jdblant80]

Thanks for the input everyone. I wonder if it wasn't a mix up given some of the tasting notes.

At least I got some good feedback on the saison I submitted.