Hey all, So my stout came along pretty good. First case I had went pretty fast and I am on my last couple of bottles. I cracked one open today, as soon as the beer touched the glass instant foam. So I poured it slow, took about 10mins to fill the glass. Has anybody experienced this before? The beer dose not seem to taste over carbonated. I added about .50lbs Of CaraPlis. Could this be culprit? Thanks guys Cheers
It’s not the Carapils. You probably overprimed. Or there is a possibility that you had a contaminated bottle, or a bottle with some extra sediment in it for the CO2 bubbles to form. It happens once in a while. Try a little less priming sugar next time.
I would recommend just pouring the entire bottle into a pitcher or large glass right away, rather than taking 10 minutes to pour it slowly. Then just let it settle a bit, pour into a regular glass, and enjoy.
What Dave said.
Damn, I was expecting a different thread… :
Clearly you mean a thread about hats. Good call.
EDIT - Or barber shops.
Observation: the act of seeing how otherwise normal people can be steered into a direction far more sophomoric than their usual by certain one syllable words. Like the sound made when ones colon presses out methane, it never ceases to be funny.
there is no such thing as a ‘crazy amount of head’
more head for everyone!!
This raises a good point. What is a crazy amount? More than you’re used to? But that might still be a normal amount.
I think a “crazy amount” is a matter of perspective. I’ve been with my wife for 13 years, so a crazy amount to me is pretty much anything more than once a year on my birthday.
So there is such a thing as a “crazy amount”. “Too much” is a different story.
…but it’s been fun reading and seeing the wreck in action! LOL
ahahhaha. I used a brewing app for my amount of corn sugar to go in. I want to say it was 3.45 oz.
Thanks guys
At the risk of getting back on topic, were you certain that it was fully fermented when you primed and bottled?
I quite literally just burst out laughing aloud!
Yeah, that picture is gold. ;D
I was a number or two off of my final gravity. It was in primary for about three weeks. Temp controlled
Do you think that could be the issue, Not being finished fermenting?
Yes, completion of fermentation is important. When in doubt, wait longer. Don’t ever bottle too early.
After three weeks fermentation should be done unless you have some contamination issue. However, if the beer tasted fine then it probably isn’t contaminated. Could easily have been imperfectly dissolved priming sugar that resulted in a couple bottles getting too much sugar. Also could be the last few bottles that picked up whatever trub came over in your racking process and that material created nucleation in the bottle.
If there was an off flavor/aroma to the beer then think about how to improve your sanitation.
If there was a lot of trub in those bottles then think about how to rack over less trub.
Otherwise, assume it was a bottling issue. Some people gently stir the beer in the bottling bucket after everything is racked into the bucket to help evenly distribute the priming sugar. I add the priming sugar to the bucket before the beer and try to create a gentle whirlpool by aiming the end of the hose along the interior wall of the bucket. I have not had any problems with carbonation since adopting this very minor tweak.
I add the priming sugar to the bucket before the beer and try to create a gentle whirlpool by aiming the end of the hose along the interior wall of the bucket. I have not had any problems with carbonation since adopting this very minor tweak.
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I used to have this problem of a few bottles being overcarbonated before adding the priming solution to the bottling bucket first. I think I was stirring the beer too gently for fear of getting a lot of oxygen in there.
I add priming sugar to bucket first as well, because that is what I was taught. I have never had a noticeable problem with uneven carbonation. The only time I have noticed differing carbonation levels, it was easily tracked to differing times at carbing temps, as I had little room for refrigerated batches of 22oz upright bombers before I converted a chest freezer. It would be refrigerate 5 bottles, and replace in frig as they were consumed. the last 10 or so bottles may have been at room temp for 2-4 weeks longer than the first ones consumed. Even then, I never had ‘crazy amount of head’ from my beer 8)
I add my priming solution to my bucket first as well. Well it still taste good after the foam simmers down. Beer is still beer at the end of the day, Thanks all.