What do you do when you know you have overcarbonated bottles

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After 6 days in the bottles I discovered those were overcarbonated. What are the possibles solutions to this?

Someone told me to release the gas and then recap, so I did that but now I'm guessing I'm gonna ended up with under-carbonation.
 
At 6 days in the bottle they're NOT over carbonated. You've opened them TOO SOON. The co2 is in the headpsace and NOT in solution.

We get thsi all the time from folks who open their bottles WAAAAAYYYYYYY early.

If you watch Poindexter's video on time lapsed carbonation, you will see that in many instances, before a beer is carbed it my gush, that's not from infection, or mixing of sugars, but because the co2 hasn't evened out- it hasn't been pulled fully into the beer. Think of it as there's a lot of co2 being generated and most of it is in the headspace, not in the beer, so there's still "over pressure" in the bottle, so it gushes when it is opened.

But when the beer is truly carbed it all evens out, across the bottles.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlBlnTfZ2iw]time lapse carbonation - YouTube[/ame]

The 3 weeks at 70 degrees, that we recommend is the minimum time it takes for average gravity beers to carbonate and condition. Higher grav beers take longer.

Stouts and porters have taken me between 6 and 8 weeks to carb up..I have a 1.090 Belgian strong that took three months to carb up.

And just because a beer is carbed doesn't mean it still doesn't taste like a$$ and need more time for the off flavors to condition out. You have green beer.

Temp and gravity are the two factors that contribute to the time it takes to carb beer. But if a beer's not ready yet, or seems low carbed, and you added the right amount of sugar to it, then it's not stalled, it's just not time yet.

Everything you need to know about carbing and conditioning, can be found here Of Patience and Bottle Conditioning. With emphasis on the word, "patience." ;)

Additionally once the three weeks or so has passed, chiling them down for a few days (not just a few hours or over night as most new brewers want to do ;)) will help the carbonation settle.

So the correct answer is, WALK AWAY for 2 more weeks.
 
You should have posted here BEFORE you took that bad advice.......

Now you have to wait 2 more weeks to even see IF they'll be carbed or not...THEN you might have to fix it AND WAIT ANOTHER THREE WEEKS for them to re-carb.
 
Revvy has posted the same thing so many times that he must just be copy/pasting. It's cool though to have the patience to help people out, even if you're repeating yourself a lot.
 
If you added more than the recommended amount,its still possible,and its possible also that you could have an unfinished beer,which we have no clue if you bottled this after 3 days or 3 weeks of primary fermentation. More than likely its probably "What Revvy replied" Just assuming.

So this leaves me with: How long primary,how much priming sugar,how much volume did you bottle ? Even how long did you chill,did you chill them?
 
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