At what point during bottle carbonation will I know that I’m safe? I’m currently carbonating my caribou slobber, it’s on day 5 in the bottle. I flip it over once a day to keep the yeast suspended.
Just curious.
After you have consumed the last bottle. 
I’ve had a couple bottles blow 2-4 months later. Is it over carbonation, infection or weak bottles?? Combination of of the 3?
Interesting, didn’t expect that. Thanks 
No amount of flipping or waiting is going to increase carbonation. Once all the sugar you added is gone its gone. The only reasons you need to be concerned are:
Your beer wasn’t done fermenting
You added too much sugar
You didn’t mix the sugar well.
If none of these things are true, you’re fine.
Have you actually seen excess carbonation in some or all of your beer, or are you just being paranoid?
Not paranoid, its my first brew/bottling so I’m curious.
There’s absolutely no need to flip the bottles over at all. Just keep them at room temp for 1-3 weeks. They’ll carb up. You don’t have to “keep the yeast in suspension”.
Well, if you haven’t even cracked open your first bottle yet, and you’re already worrying about the potential for bottle bombs, that does qualify you as paranoid in my book. Its okay, happens to the best of us.
Relax, if you followed the directions even semi correctly you’ll be fine.
+1
The only time I’ve done the bottle flipping thing is if I’ve had some flat beer. It’s happened a couple times that the batch was flat.
I gave each bottle a good shake and they carbed right up after a couple more weeks.
Seems kinda weird that it wouldn’t have carbed the first time, but hey, it worked.
I have discovered that there is quite a bit of forgivness in the system. I have had a few batches that when I checked the gravity after getting it in the bottling bucket (I’m awful about just leaving the beer in the fermentor a bit longer than called for and assuming I am done then) and noticed that I was 10 points high. I was really worrried as I had read about a number of folks experiencing the bombastic bottles. I have yet to have one blow though.
Barry
I’ve never had a bottle bomb but I had a whole batch of geysers once. Two cases of scotch ale that when you popped the top the entire contents shot out all over the place leaving about 1/3 of the bottle left for drinking. Not sure what happened exactly but I’ve always suspected I used too much sugar in the priming solution.
Same here. I even added Beano to a 1.090 OG tripel (not recommended). All but a shot would gush into the sink. :oops:
Well, if you haven’t even cracked open your first bottle yet, and you’re already worrying about the potential for bottle bombs, that does qualify you as paranoid in my book. Its okay, happens to the best of us.
Relax, if you followed the directions even semi correctly you’ll be fine.[/quote]
I’m just doing my research man. 
