Last night I finally bottled my first homebrew batch, a honey brown ale. Room temp holding steady at about 72-74. I checked this morning and so far, no bottles have exploded! Three more weeks!
Congratulations on the first run! It really is exciting stuff, I remember how jacked I was when my pops and I bottled our first beer....it's cool as shit haha. We've now been brewing for a little over 2 years and have never had a bottle bomb (mostly keg now anyways). I've had some highly over carbonated beers, I've had some relatively flat beers, but never an explosion. Good luck and I hope every bottle survives! Enjoy the most rewarding hobby in the world!
Well, if your bottles are going to explode, either due to fermentation not being complete before botting, or due to using too much priming sugar, it would probably not happen within a day. But is there some reason you think either of these circumstances may apply?
My bottling has gotten more consistent over the years. I finally realized that the recommendations for bottling sugar are based on the volume I THOUGHT I was going to get, not the actual volume I ended up with. So if I end up with less or more than I thought, I have to adjust the amount of sugar. ABV can take a factor in flat beers, so be aware of large ABVs/
Congrats! Bottling the first batch is a big accomplishment! A lot of people keg because they find bottling to be a hassle, but I actually think bottling is one of my favorite parts of the brewing process.
Nice. I know that everybody always tells people to wait and be patient, but I think that there is value in opening a bottle at a week to try it. You get to see how the beer develops. Taste at every stage...taste the grains, taste the pre-boil runnings, taste the wort right before you pitch yeast, when you bottle, a week in, etc... Oh, I see that you have fermentation temp control from your avatar. Excellent. Your beer is going to rock.
Tried the honey brown ale this past weekend for Thanksgiving and it tastes delicious! Got some very nice complements from my friends who tried it out. Each bottle I opened was fully carbonated not nowhere near flat! I'm stoked that my first attempt at homebrewing turned out so well!
