Way short

[kbusch18]

Couple of questions
1 upon racking my beer into the bottling bucket with priming sugar it became evident I was way short of 5 gallons
Is it a problem that I had 5oz of priming sugar to the mix and bottled what came out to be 3.5 and i beleive i was short because of all the slidge in the bottom should i rack into carbouy instead of pouring the kettle into the carbouysecon
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[kbusch18]

Sorry write this on my iPhone not really working for me

 

[fizgig]

That could make bottle bombs, can you put a lid with an airlock on it? I might let that ferment out and try again with 2.5oz sugar in a week or so.

 

[kbusch18]

If it were to bomb what time table would that take place and would cooler temps help with that ,just end up with a sweeter beer

 

[fizgig]

It's 100% fermentable, it should ferment out in 10 days or less. I don't know if you would end up with uncarbonated sugary beer or if it would just take longer to make bottles that blow up, maybe someone else could answer that. If you have a keg you could release the pressure a bit.

 

[kbusch18]

Hey so I opened one up a week since bottling and its flatter than water

 

[masskrug]

How did you add the priming sugar, just dump it in, or boil up a solution?

One week isn't enough time to carb up. Try 3 weeks.

 

[kbusch18]

Well I boiled up 5oz in a cup of water then stirred Ina saturated after each bottle I understand one week is short but I was instructed that over carbonation would cause bombs at three weeks I did three and half gallons to 5oz on accident