One bottle way more carbonated than the others ... why?

[leojez]

Hi,

Brewed and bottled a Festival Pilgrim's Hope kit and it's lovely. For a British ale it is perfectly carbonated, quite low carbonation with a one finger width head. However, around 12 bottles in I just poured a bottle and got instant foam all the way up to the top of the pint glass and had to slowly keep adding - not great as this mixes in the yeast gunk at the bottom.

Wondering why there is one rogue bottle? Sugar was added to the bottom of the bottling bucket so should have been evenly mixed up.

Got me scratching my head. Any ideas what could have caused this?

Thanks!

 

[geetee]

Hi,

Brewed and bottled a Festival Pilgrim's Hope kit and it's lovely. For a British ale it is perfectly carbonated, quite low carbonation with a one finger width head. However, around 12 bottles in I just poured a bottle and got instant foam all the way up to the top of the pint glass and had to slowly keep adding - not great as this mixes in the yeast gunk at the bottom.

Wondering why there is one rogue bottle? Sugar was added to the bottom of the bottling bucket so should have been evenly mixed up.

Got me scratching my head. Any ideas what could have caused this?

Thanks!

Could be a dodgy/dirty bottle, a bit of wild yeast infection causing almost a gusher. Did it taste OK or over yeasty?

 

[leojez]

Could be a dodgy/dirty bottle, a bit of wild yeast infection causing almost a gusher. Did it taste OK or over yeasty?

Now drinking it ... tastes good but yeah, maybe a little bit yeasty. And really carbonated as well. Still very drinkable though. Do you think I'd be better off throwing the bottle out rather than reusing it?

 

[Dads_Ale]

Was the sugar in a solution?
May be that it wasn't fully mixed. I usually give mine a gentle stir even when using it in solution.

 

[leojez]

Was the sugar in a solution?
May be that it wasn't fully mixed. I usually give mine a gentle stir even when using it in solution.

Priming sugar (non-solution) was added to the bottling bucket before syphoning the beer into it so it should have mixed in pretty well. I always use this technique and have never had this issue before (after around 15 kit brews). I'll try a gentle stir next time ... shouldn't hurt.

 

[dad_of_jon]

Priming sugar (non-solution) was added to the bottling bucket before syphoning the beer into it so it should have mixed in pretty well. I always use this technique and have never had this issue before (after around 15 kit brews). I'll try a gentle stir next time ... shouldn't hurt.

Hi, you may have answered your own question. I never stir always having syphoned onto the priming solution like yourself. I've had 1 gusher in 25 brews (1.250+ bottles) and that was over my father-in-laws sunday dinner :lol: poor sod.

So maybe that one bottle didn't get the same cleaning regime as the others.

 

[Dutto]

The reason I batch carbonate is so that I don't put two teaspoonful of sugar in one bottle and none in the next!

I could almost guarantee that there would be a bottle with almost zero carbonation somewhere in the batch! :whistle:

Maybe in this case the sugar started to concentrate up in the bottom of the bucket with the same result.