My last batch was a stout and it blew the lid off the fermenter. I cleaned the led didn't think much of it. When it came time to bottle, the gravity was a little higher then I had expected but after having checked several days in a row , it wasn't dropping. I bottled it and have let it be for about a month. Now I've noticed that some of the caps seem slightly poped up and when I open the bottles the head gushes up the neck of the bottle. I'm pretty sure this is a bad thing. Can some one confirm that this is bad and tell me the cause.
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Cheesefood
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Hop man said:
How long did you let is ferment after the lid blew off? Stouts can take a while to ferment. How much priming sugar did you use?
I've had gushers, usually caused by not blending in the priming sugar very well. In a poorly mixed batch, some may gush while others are flat.
I had the lid back on within 30 minutes and let it ferment for another week maybe 10 days. I used 5oz. of priming sugar. I poured it into the bottom of the bottling bucket and then siphoned the beer on top. It's work for my prevoius brews. Should I have stirred it in?
That technique worked for me when I bottled. No need to stir, the agitation from racking does the job.Hop man said:
Cheesefood
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There are potentially a lot of things that can cause a gusher. Pull a couple of beers that you bottled about 5-10 bottles apart. Check how those are. You may have just pulled one that had too much sugar in it. I quit bottling because I was tired of gushers and flatties.
It doesn't hurt to GENTLY whirl the beer after you've filled the bottling bucket.
It doesn't hurt to GENTLY whirl the beer after you've filled the bottling bucket.
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