Thanks for the replies. What can I say? I'm a worrier...


"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy71@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > OK, as a newbie I've been warned to make sure fermentation has stopped[/color][/color]
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> > you won't get exploding beer bottles. I believe I'm in the clear, but I
> > can't get the image of glass shrapnel out of my head.
> > Let me ask: If they are going to explode, how long after they are capped[/color]
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> > they start to blow?
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> Most likely in the first week. If it wasn't done fermenting, then there
> will be plenty of yeast in the bottle to do its work. If you take FG
> readings and prime according to directions, you have a LOT of leeway[/color]
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> anything as bad as a bottle bomb occurs. It has never happened to me and[/color]
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> have not talked with anybody it has happened with, although I have had[/color]
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> gushers when opened.
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> Tom Veldhouse
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