LaurieGator
Well-Known Member
We bottled a batch of cherry stout that had fermented for 14 days in primary and 3 weeks in secondary on the fruit. The FG was 1.014 when we added 5 oz corn sugar in 2 cups of water, siphoned beer onto the mixture and bottled it on 4/19. I just looked in my notes and realized that I did not sanitize the bottling bucket but it was washed out and all of the other equipment was sanitized.
We went out camping for the weekend and turned the AC in the house down to 80F. When we came home on Sunday, one of the bottles had blown. There was a 50 cent piece sized hole (one piece) at the bottom of the bottle neck where the bottle flares out and dried beer on the bathroom floor. We turned down the AC to 73F and I have had no other bottles break.
I was thinking that one week seems a little early for a bottle bomb, especially for a stout. I have 6 other batches in the house that have not exploded yet including another stout. I have put a bottle into the fridge to check to see if I have overcarbonation and the rest of the bottles are still in the case boxes in the bathroom.
From what I have read, it seems like bottle bombs usually affect more than one bottle in a batch and they seem to blow up around the same time.
Could this be a case of a weak bottle? Or should I start getting uber-paranoid about the bottle bomb and re-cap bottles? If the bottle in the fridge ends up being a gusher, I was planning to re-cap...
Thanks... I am hoping this is an isolated case. Or I just have really bad luck with cherry flavored anything...
We went out camping for the weekend and turned the AC in the house down to 80F. When we came home on Sunday, one of the bottles had blown. There was a 50 cent piece sized hole (one piece) at the bottom of the bottle neck where the bottle flares out and dried beer on the bathroom floor. We turned down the AC to 73F and I have had no other bottles break.
I was thinking that one week seems a little early for a bottle bomb, especially for a stout. I have 6 other batches in the house that have not exploded yet including another stout. I have put a bottle into the fridge to check to see if I have overcarbonation and the rest of the bottles are still in the case boxes in the bathroom.
From what I have read, it seems like bottle bombs usually affect more than one bottle in a batch and they seem to blow up around the same time.
Could this be a case of a weak bottle? Or should I start getting uber-paranoid about the bottle bomb and re-cap bottles? If the bottle in the fridge ends up being a gusher, I was planning to re-cap...
Thanks... I am hoping this is an isolated case. Or I just have really bad luck with cherry flavored anything...