Are you ready for gushing beer?

If it gushes you should probably dump it, on the floor if necessary. It's not your fault, its the brewers' fault. I've been in a room with 450 homebrews being judged, some gushed, but not many, maybe 5-10?

 

The threads r getting weirder and weirder here at BA.

 

Only worry about this when Im opening a Belgian 750ml. Only time Ive ever had this issue. Sometimes pub cans with widgets do this too actually.

 

i think the last time i had a beer "gush" was when my college roommate shook up a miller lite and gave it to me...and no, i was not ready.

 

Gush. Say it out loud. It will make you laugh.

As to the topic at hand, the warmer a beer is, the more likely it is to "gush." It's Boyle's law. Look it up, I'm far too inebriated to attempt explaining physics.

 

I wouldn't say breweries like Orval, Fantome, The Bruery, Cantillion, Drie Fonteinen, Captain Lawrence etc... are incompetent. They are extremely competent, and your comment seems to be born of a lack of information on your part.

When you are opening a bottle of unfiltered ale fermented with brett or bacteria, there is a good chance it will have undergone additional fermentation in the bottle. These styles are meant to be highly carbonated. It isn't a sign of incompetence unless the bottle is accidentally infected.

Make sure to chill them and open them while very cold. Then allow them to warm up in the glass or bottle (once opened) instead of allowing them to warm up while still sealed.

 

I rarely open a beer that gushes out but I always open the beer next to a glass just in case I have to pour it over quickly.