I have a batch of porter that has been sitting in my pantry for 3 weeks now, and tried one just to see how the carbonation was going. The bottle when I opened it didn't give off any violent hiss, so there didn't seem to be any excessive pressure in it.
But there was some gushing, it took a few seconds for it to start and was creeping up really slowly and absolutely no fountain. I tried the SG in another bottle after pouring it back and forth between 2 glasses and it was at a tie between .010 and .011 as opposed to .012 it had stabilised at during fermentation. But that diffence may very well be due to the slight alcohol increase during carbonation.
It tasted as it had not matured enough as expected, but other than that it was nothing funky, could this be just because they were opened at room temperature and will solve it self by sitting in the fridge for a while? I have had the same issues in some commercial belgians and bottles of Robinson's Old Tom and Fullers vintage ale that are bottle conditioned and when opened at room temp. Do I need to worry, I have only had to dump one batch due to infection and would like to keep it that way.
But there was some gushing, it took a few seconds for it to start and was creeping up really slowly and absolutely no fountain. I tried the SG in another bottle after pouring it back and forth between 2 glasses and it was at a tie between .010 and .011 as opposed to .012 it had stabilised at during fermentation. But that diffence may very well be due to the slight alcohol increase during carbonation.
It tasted as it had not matured enough as expected, but other than that it was nothing funky, could this be just because they were opened at room temperature and will solve it self by sitting in the fridge for a while? I have had the same issues in some commercial belgians and bottles of Robinson's Old Tom and Fullers vintage ale that are bottle conditioned and when opened at room temp. Do I need to worry, I have only had to dump one batch due to infection and would like to keep it that way.