It has been two weeks since I bottled my latest batch of beer, so I grabbed a bottle from the basement to see how it is coming along. In the bottle that I took at random, I found this:
The top of the bottle was cracked. When I popped the bottle open, I found that the beer was totally flat. No head; No fizz. It appears that the fizz sneaked out through the crack.
I pitched the beer from that bottle.
That is the second bottle that has cracked on me since I started doing this in 1996. Don’t know if I can take this! (kidding)
I grabbed a different bottle, and that one had some fizz in it. The beer tastes OK, but it will take a bit longer to get conditioned, so I will leave it for a few more weeks. At least it hasn’t gone sour.