DrVertebrae
Well-Known Member
Well I finally had my first major mess up but what a lesson learned. I brewed up a milk choc stout and got it into the bottles a couple of weeks ago. It was the first time I used my new bottling bucket and so I just put the liquid priming sugar mix into the bottleing bucket. Unfortunately I must have forgotten to swirl it and mix it up because the first bottles that I filled became gyzers of foam. I opened one up last night for a taste and it blasted all over the kitchen and would not stop. Of a one liter bottle I got about 2/3 of a glass of beer (oh so tasty too!). So I got the next one out and opened it up outside. Same resuslt but even worse. By the time it was through spueing forth a gyzer of foam 6 inches high, there ws literally no liquid left in the bottle. I spent a good half hour wiping stout beer from everything in the kitchen. Some droplets went ten feet away onto walls, stovetop, frig, cabinets and windows. Amazing.
Take home lesson, when you add priming sugar to the bottling bucket, don't forget to mix gently but well. I gotta get one of those drill attachments.
Take home lesson, when you add priming sugar to the bottling bucket, don't forget to mix gently but well. I gotta get one of those drill attachments.