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12/25/2011 10:16 AM
 

I'm still trying to learn a good bit about some brewing basics, and the internet is only so much help for specific-questions.  I broke the seal a month or so back on a brewing rig that I purchased here through these forums.  A friend and I brewed an APA and we used bottle conditioning.  A week and a half back I tried my "X" bottle (first-filled).  It was still a little cloudy and a little light on carbonation, but I was very pleased with the flavor.  I let it rest a while longer and 2 days ago I tried a second bottle and thought it was perfect (although still a tiny bit cloudy).  I put a 6 pack in the fridge and of the next 4 opened, 3 of them seemed too carbonated ... far too much head, and I was losing the flavor of the beer in the carbonation.  The 4th actually flowed over when opened, but after that tasted fine.

So I assume that means some of them had too much sugar in the bottle conditioning, although I don't know enough to be 100% sure.  My questions are:

(1) How would some of them have too much carbonation but not all?  Woudln't it be systemic throughout the batch?

(2) Is this in any way fixable or if there is too much carbonation will the extra acidity prove fatal to some of the critical aspects of the flavors in the beer?  i.e. is the beer already signed its "do not resuscitate" order?

Thanks in advance.

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12/28/2011 10:15 AM
 

Howdy, Koach.  It sounds like the over carbonation is systemic if 4/4 bottles have too much CO2, one of them way too much.

Can you give us the original gravity and final gravity?  How much sugar did you add before bottling?

On the bad news side, a bacterial infection can cause over carbonation.  As time goes by, the taste will deteriorate as the bacteria has more effect.  If the beer starts to taste bad, bring some to a KGB meeting and somebody will probably be able to help you pinpoint the problem.  If the beer continues to taste fine, you probably just bottled with too much residual sugars in your beer.


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