Bottle Bomb Disposal Squad

[Bazza]

So hot on the heels of my TTL infection disaster I decided last night to console myself by bottling up the gallon of TC which had been fermenting away nicely in the bedroom for over 3 weeks.

All was going well & was just about to cap the 9 bottles when I had a sudden sinking feeling: I realised when boiling the tea & sugar prior to racking I'd used 100g sugar instead of the 20g or so needed for priming. Just had my head up me arse, mixing up the 20g for the 100g used before pitching. Also suffering the jitters from the TTL episode; my brewing's going a bit Rory McIlroy of late.

So I'm sitting with 9 500ml bottles primed with 100g of sugar, enough to take the roof off the garage.

So here's what I've done: I placed, not clamped, the lids on the bottles and stored them in the brew fridge. I'll leave them like that till Sunday or Monday till I'm sure the majority of the CO2 produced has escaped whilst also protecting the top of my cider. Then on Sunday or Monday I'll clamp the lids on the bottles and hope there's still a little sugar left to carbonate.

Would this be an agreeable approach?

Cheers,

-Barry

[matthewdick23]

or get them in some plastic screwtops. just release pressure every so often when they feel super hard

[Ciderhead]

sweet beer mind

[RichC]

Bazza, just to be sure you're getting it right, I'd leave the lids loose and let all the co2 dissipate , a week or 2 or whatever it takes. Then make more priming solution, sanitise a small graduated syringe from the pharmacy and put the right amount of priming solution in each bottle and cap