Bottle bomb concerns

[mhurst111]

I brewed BM Centennial blonde back on 3/16. Racked it onto 6lbs of strawberries on 3/23 when gravity was 1.010. Sat on the berries until 3/31. Fg at that time was 1.008. Let it sit in tertiary for another week and bottled on 4/7 using 1/4 cup of corn sugar.

This is what the bottles look like now. Hard to see in the photo, but lots of floating strawberry materials.



This is what they look like after sitting in the fridge for 24 hours. There is .5 to .75 inches of sediment. Way more than I typically get in a bottle conditioned beer.



This what it looks like in a glass. Light carbonation after 15 days, Tastes good, lots of floating bits...




So my question is, will the increased sediment that I am sure is berry parts continue to ferment making bottle bombs? I'm thinking I need to take a sample bottle every week or so until I hit the carbonation level I want and then stove top pasturize.

I think the lesson learned from this batch is let fruit beers sit in tertiary longer...

Any other thought or ideas

Thanks

 

[dg35884]

I doubt you will have bottle bombs on this one just a kit of junk in the bottles. Did you child crash before bottling? That might help next time to cut down on the crud. Cheers

 

[Bluelinebrewer]

I don't think you'll have to worry about bottle bombs either. But if you brew it again, I would let it set in tertiary for at least 2 weeks, then crash it for a week. Also, gelatin during cold crash works wonders!! Just my 2¢ based on my experience.

 

[mhurst111]

Thanks for the feed back. I will forgo the stove top pasteurization then.

Cold crashing makes perfect sense....i should have done that. I think the biggest problem was the waiting on this one. I was in a Centennial Blonde mindset - brew day to glass in 15 days. I got impatient and tried to rush it.