No it's not. A clean bottle with no headspace for example, can still explode as the secondary process creates the gas needed to be carbed.Pixiedust said:but now I understand its more about keeping everything clean instead of head space.
Pixiedust said:Lol, all good bum!
I am rather sleep deprived as woke woke me at 3am with gastro, it made perfect sense!
As I can't leave the house today, I am going to start a couple of brews..... Ok, I have just cleaned out five FVs..... I think I would be killed by HTMBO,O if I filled all five at once!
Well, if you will start drinking Brooklyn Acetaldehyde-y Lager and Melbourne Bitter at 8.27am ('what's in the glass' thread), you can't expect to be on top typing form, Bum !bum said:I'm glad you could decipher my Saturday morning gibberish.
This has never made much sense to me. You could have a headspace of exactly zero and the generated gas will go into solution just the same as it would if you had some headspace. The liquid can carry CO2 just as well as the gap of atmosphere you might make at the top of the bottle.Big Nath said:No it's not. A clean bottle with no headspace for example, can still explode as the secondary process creates the gas needed to be carbed.
As others have said, filling to the top with a bottling wand leaves the perfect headspace once the wand is removed. Tis a reason the wands are that length.
If that was the case, then if bottling in plastic bottles, the bottles wouldn't expand. Plastic is flexible, glass is not. Bang.dent said:This has never made much sense to me. You could have a headspace of exactly zero and the generated gas will go into solution just the same as it would if you had some headspace. The liquid can carry CO2 just as well as the gap of atmosphere you might make at the top of the bottle.
The only issue with zero headspace is you might spill a bit of beer when you open the lid, when it froths a little.
My point is quite simple.dent said:I don't really get your point. The amount of CO2 dissolved in the beer is directly proportional to pressure, headspace or not. You don't need the "spring" of the headspace air, as there is already the "spring" of the amount of gas that dissolves in the liquid. The type of bottle is irrelevant. If the bottle was filled with something CO2 could not dissolve in (I dunno, mercury maybe), sure, the bottle would go bang.
It's not pointless. It conveys perfectly that there is no point worrying about having no headspace in a bottle.dent said:That seems like a pointless calculation. I'd agree that you'd probably make a mess with your bottle of hefe at three volumes.
Regardless there is no way that no headspace is going to result in a bottle bomb.
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