My most recently bottled beer has been bottled for just shy of 2 weeks. I opened one today and it quickly poured over. I’m not sure if this is considered a gusher, but that’s what it did. I then continued to open another and another…same thing. This was a very small batch that I made so not a total loss.
What signs would I look for to see if this was infected vs. over carbonated. I’m fairly certain my bottling bucket is calibrated but I’ve always struggled with mixing the priming sugar properly. I did check the gravity again on one of these and it was at 1.010. I have been guilty of possibly not letting the beers fully ferment out in the past. From what I’ve read I can’t imagine a move of a point or two would cause this though.
Smelled like beer! Taste was meh, primarily because it had a sh#t ton of hop sediment (forgot to add Whirfloc). Nothing about it was way outside of what I’ve brewed before.
5oz of priming sugar will increase gravity by 0.003. So if the yeast fermented the priming sugar and also fermented the wort an extra 0.001, that’s like adding 33% more priming sugar.
If it’s infection, it will probably continue to dry out the beer and further increase carbonation. My gut feeling is that infection would take longer than two weeks.
In this case I had poor records, I accidentally deleted it in Beersmith. Typically I’ll ferment about 7-10 days. The temp previously had been somewhat controlled with a cooler and water. I would normally ferment around 62-64. The priming sugar procedure was to use an online calculator to get the amount of corn sugar. Boil this for a few minutes and add straight into the bottling bucket and stir.
I believe on this one I added to the bottom of the bucket and transferred on top of it, probably didn’t stir enough. Since every bottle was acting this way I suspect it was way over-carbed.
Wow, I had no idea, that is quite a bit more! BUT doesn’t that priming sugar only temporarily increase the gravity? Once it’s carbonated it’s like it was never there and should return to pre-priming sugar levels.
That’s why I asked. 1 day to brew. 7~10 days fawning over it. Half a day bottling it. 14 days waiting for carbonation. 15 minutes to dump it. But somehow that few days between FG samples seems like such a waste.
Up to you, but I’ve learned to be patient especially when bottling