Been bulk priming for years and I've never had this before..
However 2 weeks ago i bulk primed an ESB.
Using 1768PC which I know from experience likes to start and stop.
Bulk primed with 110g table sugar to give me around 2.2vols carb according to beersmith.
Usual method - boiled a cup of water with the sugar. Put the sugary water in the bottom of clean fermenter.
Siphon the cold conditioned beer into that sugary mixture.
Two weeks on and open a bottle slight psst sound - very few bubbles and almost no head.
Anyway never done this before but I had 27 and a half bottle worth.
Usually I have just poured that last bit out. This time I filled a half bottle and capped it.
The other night I opened that bottle and the cap blew off and hit the ceiling no sooner than I touched the lid with the bottle opener.
Thought today I might get one of the other bottle down and add half a teaspoon of sugar to it.
You know maybe I didn't mix it well enough or maybe I didn't tare the scales..
Opened the bottle (Normal half assed psst) put the half teaspoon in. (Also never tried this before)
As soon as the sugar touched the surface the bottle started frothing like mad..
Anyone have any ideas first of all why that happened? I need to understand. Perhaps that's completely normal I don't know.
Also what should I do with said under carbed beer. Is adding an extra half teaspoon of sugar a bad idea?
Warwick
However 2 weeks ago i bulk primed an ESB.
Using 1768PC which I know from experience likes to start and stop.
Bulk primed with 110g table sugar to give me around 2.2vols carb according to beersmith.
Usual method - boiled a cup of water with the sugar. Put the sugary water in the bottom of clean fermenter.
Siphon the cold conditioned beer into that sugary mixture.
Two weeks on and open a bottle slight psst sound - very few bubbles and almost no head.
Anyway never done this before but I had 27 and a half bottle worth.
Usually I have just poured that last bit out. This time I filled a half bottle and capped it.
The other night I opened that bottle and the cap blew off and hit the ceiling no sooner than I touched the lid with the bottle opener.
Thought today I might get one of the other bottle down and add half a teaspoon of sugar to it.
You know maybe I didn't mix it well enough or maybe I didn't tare the scales..
Opened the bottle (Normal half assed psst) put the half teaspoon in. (Also never tried this before)
As soon as the sugar touched the surface the bottle started frothing like mad..
Anyone have any ideas first of all why that happened? I need to understand. Perhaps that's completely normal I don't know.
Also what should I do with said under carbed beer. Is adding an extra half teaspoon of sugar a bad idea?
Warwick