10-16-2022, 03:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-16-2022, 04:06 AM by Michigan Swamp Buck.
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I just popped open the first bottled beer after one week. It was one of four bottles I put into the fridge to keep an eye on. The average temperature in the fridge is under 40 degrees, so I never expected the primer sugar to over ferment and explode a bottle and that never happened. In fact I've been expecting the carbonation to be low because yeast does best around 70-80F. Also, because I didn't bottle at the recommended two weeks and went for four, the alcohol level got pretty high with the sugar I'd been adding to keep the ferment going, so the yeast couldn't be very active at this point, or so I thought.
Well, it let off some pressure when I popped the top and had a very small head and a fair amount of carbonation bubbles through out. It had some "mouth feel" from the carbonation as well. It was very low though, about half of the carbonation I wanted. Also the flavor was quite different from the quarts I had in plastic containers. It was not as full bodied and had a more regular beer flavor, less of a kick from the hops, but still very present. Not as sweat either, but still somewhat sweet and just different enough to taste a bit off from the fresh "living" beer I had been drinking all week and had grown used to.
I think I should bring in that beer from out doors and get it to the room temperature of the house and give it another week. I doubt it will activate enough to blow up at this point, but I was so paranoid about that, I was handling the bottles like they were filled with nitro this whole time and feel rather foolish now that I actually opened one up and found the carbonation to be rather low. Hardly seems dangerous at all now.
Also, the yeast and a lot of sediment collected at the bottom of the bottles, but the particulates were still so heavy that it made it cloudy, it looks a lot like orange juice actually.
Well, it let off some pressure when I popped the top and had a very small head and a fair amount of carbonation bubbles through out. It had some "mouth feel" from the carbonation as well. It was very low though, about half of the carbonation I wanted. Also the flavor was quite different from the quarts I had in plastic containers. It was not as full bodied and had a more regular beer flavor, less of a kick from the hops, but still very present. Not as sweat either, but still somewhat sweet and just different enough to taste a bit off from the fresh "living" beer I had been drinking all week and had grown used to.
I think I should bring in that beer from out doors and get it to the room temperature of the house and give it another week. I doubt it will activate enough to blow up at this point, but I was so paranoid about that, I was handling the bottles like they were filled with nitro this whole time and feel rather foolish now that I actually opened one up and found the carbonation to be rather low. Hardly seems dangerous at all now.
Also, the yeast and a lot of sediment collected at the bottom of the bottles, but the particulates were still so heavy that it made it cloudy, it looks a lot like orange juice actually.