Unwanted explosions!

[thestingers]

I would be interested in trying nettle beer next year maybe. If you can be arsed would you post your recipe and method when you find it?
Happy drinking anyway.
I'm of home now for a pint of my stout.

I tried a few different ones, I will send you the link to the place I got it from.

[hoppingMad]

I guess you have discovered by now that bottling at 1.030 is way over the top. 2 gravity points is usually sufficient to carbonate most beers, so even 3 or four gravity points would have been sufficient for your nettle beer. But first you would have needed to establish where your final gravity would have fallen. There are a couple of ways to do this. First to ferment all the way to final gravity and record the SG. Then you know for next time to bottle at approx " ? "points above this figure. In this instance, add priming sugar to carbonate .

The other way is to perform the Fast Ferment Test http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... rment_Test

Now that you have made some nice little explosives, you mention you are not keen on releasing the pressure, "why not ?" I would be venting those bombs as soon as possible by lifting the crown caps ( if thats what you've used) until you hear the CO2 escaping. You will need to chill them very, very well before attempting this trick to prevent spraying your precious nettle beer all over the place. Get them down to just above zero C. Then allow the caps to sit back down again untill more gas has pressurised the headspace. Repeat until you feel correct carbonation has been acheived. Only "lift" the caps very slightly untill you hear the gas escaping, don't crimp the cap, and you will find that the existing caps should re-seal fine.

[Parva]

I have to admit that reading this thread in Wetherspoons earlier had me in stitches.