The waiting is the hardest part

[tyraindreams]

Have you never seen that video that Revvy posts all the time of the guy that opens beers at various stages of carbonation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlBlnTfZ2iw&feature=player_embedded

After watching that video I think my beer's quick carbonation might have to do with the insane fermentation it went through and the obscene amount of CO2 it produced... The one I poured last night gave me about a pinky width amount of creamy white head and the beer had a little less than the amount of carbonation I wanted but the beer continued to produce bubbles until i was down to the last quarter of a mug... plenty of lacing and head retention but no beercano at all... I might crack one of the testers open later to take a video of and see what you all think...

Too bad beer and women aren't the same... that guy is getting a lot of head...

 

[gstrawn]

If the CO2 isn't in the beer, how's it gonna cause a beercano? CO2 that isn't absorbed in the beer is hanging out in the vapor space (since that's the only place in the bottle that isn't the beer) and can't do much other than go PFFTTT when you open the bottle.

I bottled a sparkling strawberry cider and opened one after three days. The force of the explosion shot my hand off of the bottle and exploded onto the ceiling. Fearing bottle bombs I put all of them into the freezer. Opened one two weeks later (even took it outside ready for it to explode) but the carb was perfect. Just gotta let the co2 absorb into solution

 

[BrewKnurd]

All I know is this...when I drink a warm beer there's more of a "phhhhtzzzz" sound when I pop open a cold one it's less but I can see like a cloud of joy come out

totally agree. the phhhttttzzzz is from the release of pressure. there is more pressure in the head space of a warm beer because at equilibrium there is less in the beer and more in the vapor space.

i do love the "cloud of joy" as you put it.

 

[BrewKnurd]

Have you never seen that video that Revvy posts all the time of the guy that opens beers at various stages of carbonation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlBlnTfZ2iw&feature=player_embedded

Alls I said was CO2 that's not in the beer can't cause the beer to come flying out. Any explosion of beer is due to CO2 that is IN the beer.

 

[gstrawn]

After watching that video I think my beer's quick carbonation might have to do with the insane fermentation it went through and the obscene amount of CO2 it produced... The one I poured last night gave me about a pinky width amount of creamy white head and the beer had a little less than the amount of carbonation I wanted but the beer continued to produce bubbles until i was down to the last quarter of a mug... plenty of lacing and head retention but no beercano at all... I might crack one of the testers open later to take a video of and see what you all think...

Too bad beer and women aren't the same... that guy is getting a lot of head...

If it works it works. Can't argue with results

 

[RobWalker]

Christ - he sounds ridiculously like Hank from king of the hill