A couple last questions, is PBW alright to use with plastic? Also if say i wanted to reuse my bottles from that batch would you soak those in PBW also then sanitize, or would you recommend using completely different bottles?
PBW is fine on plastic.
As long as your bottles and clean and sanitized (I’m assuming glass) there should not be any infection carryover from one batch to the next. If you are using plastic bottles of some kind you should still be able to use them unless they have scratches that could harbor an infection.
From what I’ve read in this thread it doesn’t sound like and infection to me though. To me it seems like a keg I have on tap right now that servers all foam. I can guarantee my problem is too many sugars available when I kegged it. I was rushed and made assumptions about it being done and SWAGed the amount of priming sugar. The beer tastes great it just takes 10 minutes to pour a glass. 8^(
Paul
From the description the OP gave, I don’t think it’s likely that it’s just overcarbed. Are any of your bottles exploding? At 5 volumes, my beer will foam slowly and creep out of the neck like the OP is describing. The more clear the beer, the slower the creep. At 5 volumes, in normal bottles, one of them probably would’ve exploded by now. At 5 volumes the CO2 being released when I open the bottle frosts the lip. Do you notice that happening?
My conjecture is that infected bottles, in addition to increasing the CO2 volume, also have increased turbidity, which creates nucleation sites, which creates foaming over.