Too much priming sugar! Salvageable?

[GreenDragon13]

OK, I had a senior moment. I have been corny kegging for years. I made a German Chocolate cake stout, and was bottling it to give to a friend as a gift. It was a 3 gallon batch, Half way through bottling I realized my mistake! I forgot to reduce the amount and added priming sugar (1.25 cups DME for 5 gallons) for a 3 gallon batch.
As I do not want to give bottle bombs to a friend as a gift, I was wondering if there is a fix for this. Will thar amount of priming make bottle bombs or just overcarbed beer?
I thought maybe if I openened them to relieve the pressure after a 2 or 3 days and then resealed them? I probably won't give them away, just to be on the safe!

 

[kh54s10]

By the calculator on Northern Brewer's website you WAY over-primed. That one tells me you should have used .29 cup. At 3 volumes which is on the high end for bottling you only needed .5 cup. I wouldn't even wait to day three to release pressure. If you have enough caps I would open at the end of day 2, maybe again in a couple of days then possibly a third time a couple days later.

Get a scale - weight is much more accurate than volume.

 

[RPh_Guy]

~5.1 volumes .... I'm not sure you can salvage by opening the bottles.

I recommend to gently put them back into the fermenter and let it ferment the DME.

+1 using a priming calculator and scale.

 

[RM-MN]

Pop the caps on the bottles but leave them on top to keep contaminates out. Wait a few days for the yeast to consume the sugar you added, then prime each bottle with a priming tablet (maybe two) or measured sugar and recap.

 

[ncbrewer]

You might get some more ideas from this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/sugar-quantity-mistake-in-priming.664477/

 

[GreenDragon13]

By the calculator on Northern Brewer's website you WAY over-primed. That one tells me you should have used .29 cup. At 3 volumes which is on the high end for bottling you only needed .5 cup. I wouldn't even wait to day three to release pressure. If you have enough caps I would open at the end of day 2, maybe again in a couple of days then possibly a third time a couple days later.

Get a scale - weight is much more accurate than volume.

F'realsies?
Complete Joy of Homebrewing (C. Papasian) says 3/4 cup corn Sugar or 1.25 cup of DME per 5 gallon batch. I have used it many times when I bottled (years ago) with nary an issue.

 

[kh54s10]

F'realsies?
Complete Joy of Homebrewing (C. Papasian) says 3/4 cup corn Sugar or 1.25 cup of DME per 5 gallon batch. I have used it many times when I bottled (years ago) with nary an issue.

Sorry, I missed the DME part and was thinking the usual corn sugar priming. But still the calculator says about .47 cup.

I suppose you could prime every beer that you do the same. But I don't want my stouts fizzy like a Belgian Ale would be, for example.. So I use a calculator. And a scale.