moving exploding bottles

wedge · Post by **wedge** » Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 5:54 pm

Hi,
i had a 4 month old batch of beer all violently explode the other day. but as if that wasn't bad enough, i have two left in my room in a cupboard that havent
How do you think i should go about moving them, the thought of one going of near me is kinda scary considering the area that the broken glass spread downstairs.
Also, why did it explode?
i think i may have bottled to early or put too much sugar in?
og 1039
fg 1020 (too high still?)

Coopers Amber Ale
150g dextrose
1kg dry body blend (too much sugars?)

thanks!

Marty · Post by **Marty** » Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 6:20 pm

Judging by your list of ingredients I would say it was definitely bottled too early. Your FG should have been 1010 or under depending on what was in the 1kg dry blend.

As for moving the bottles in your room...

do you have a suit of armour handy???

I would move them with extreme caution. Perhaps buy some heavy duty leather gloves from a hardware shop and keep the bottles away from your eyes as you move them.

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 6:28 pm

No idea on the moving. Very carefully?

Buy the looks of the brew you have bottled way to early. Did you take two FG readings 24 hours apart before bottling? How did you prime the bottles? Had it been cold when you bottled? Was the day they exploded a hot one?

The recipe used looks fine and should not course exploding bottles.

Read http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... .php?t=429 towards the end it talks about exploding bottles.

Post by **Oliver** » Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 6:39 pm

Wedge,

I agree about bottling too early. You should aim for about 75% of the sugars to be consumed by the yeast (i.e. 25% remain), which would mean from 1039 you should have got to about 1010. (Drop the 1000, then times the result by 0.25: 38*0.25=9.75, thus the 1010 figure I mentioned).

Good luck with the last one. How about wearing rubber gloves and dropping it into a box so you can carry it more safely?

Oliver

mordy43 · Post by **mordy43** » Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 8:54 pm

Use the misses to move them. There expendable.

wedge · Post by **wedge** » Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 9:37 pm

ok, thanks for the replies, went to the pub for a few guinesses to mull it over.

I have decided, thanks to your posts and suggestions from mates to don a best of suit of armour i can find (sunnies, beanie, parka and gloves) and quickly but smoothly place them in an old esky. what i shall do after that i do not know.
as for the bottling to early, i will forever more be taking multiple fg readings two days apart be b positive. This was maybe my fourth brew and i have learnt much since then...
cheers!

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 10:41 pm

Throw them at the neighbours dog or cat or the local squirrels. Good Fun that.

Otherwise chill them way down and drink them

Dogger

The hooha man · Wednesday Feb 23, 2005 12:20 am

mordy43 wrote:Use the misses to move them. There expendable.

Yep,good advice,after all brewing should be a family affair.The kids to clean bottles,the wife to bottle and the men folk to test the brew

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Wednesday Feb 23, 2005 10:03 am

Hooha,

We are going to get along famously

Dogger

pharmaboy · Post by **pharmaboy** » Wednesday Feb 23, 2005 11:15 am

Bombsquad!!

http://www.afp.gov.au/afp/raw/act/bombchecklist.pdf

goodluck.................

BPJ · Post by **BPJ** » Wednesday Feb 23, 2005 2:05 pm

Probably too late now, but suit up. Using a towel to pick up, like oven mittens and then open ASAP over a bucket. The towel will soak up spillage and contain explsoion if need be.

wedge · Post by **wedge** » Wednesday Feb 23, 2005 4:26 pm

thanks for the bomb checklist pharmaboy!
due the the convienient abcense of the missus i moved the two bombs carfully into an old esky with a towel on the top. so what now? just twist off the lids? got a great pair of ski gloves and a thick jumper ready to go

wedge · Post by **wedge** » Wednesday Feb 23, 2005 6:45 pm

ok, its done.
but would you belive that these two were not gassed up anyway near the extent of the rest, infact they looked and tasted like normal bloody beer!!
I think this is because the others(that exploded) had been taken on a recent summer trip up to coffs, in a trailer, and left there for two weeks, before being brough back. i guess being bumped around in a hot trailer for 8hrs turned my tasty brew into not so good timebombs. weird.
hoo roo then for now!

mordy43 · Post by **mordy43** » Wednesday Feb 23, 2005 8:02 pm

Dogger down here we have possums a bit like the critters you have.The problem is they crawl around the power lines i d'ont think i can throw the misses that high.Has any one got the height of the lines so i can practice with a hand full of PUSSSSEEYYY.CHEERS

The hooha man · Post by **The hooha man** » Wednesday Feb 23, 2005 9:03 pm

Haha thanks Dogger
Have spent many a night testing local brews on your fine shores,chasing my other passion..the addictive
white stuff

Mordy,i hope you have a hand free for the beer when your chucking the missus at possums