Exploding bottles

[Craigw10]

I made some orange beer recently which was bottled two weeks ago. It was fermenting for two weeks and the final gravity was 1.010. This reading was taken three days in a row.

The issue I have is I have just opened the first bottle and have lost half of it because it has exploded as I've taken the cap off. I primed each bottle with a small half teaspoon of sugar. Having tasted what was left, it actually tastes ok. Any suggestions on saving the rest of the batch. And any ideas what has caused this?

 

[mikescooling]

total how much sugar for how much beer?

 

[kh54s10]

Was the bottle chilled for at least 18 -24 hours? If not the carbonation is not totally in solution which can cause the blasting foam.

It is much better and more accurate to weigh out your total sugar and make a solution by boiling in water then adding it to your bottling bucket before filling the bottles. Northern Brewer has a priming calculator on their website.

 

[BigFloyd]

See what happens at 25 seconds into the vid. Look familiar?

 

[BrokenKnucklesBrewery]

it seems that even at half of a tsp would be quite much for any size batch. For a 5 gallon batch, you wouldn't want more than 3.75 oz for the entire batch.

 

[andy6026]

Christ that video made me incredibly thirsty... especially the 31 day old beer that looked cold and well carbed.