One of the family legends is when a grandfather decided to make beer when grandma was going to be one visiting relatives for a few months.  He stored the bottles in the bathtub -- and they all turned into bottle bombs.  He cleaned up, repainted the bathroom, and got everything back to the way it should be before grandma came home.  So, he goes to the docks, picks grandma up, takes her home, she goes into the restroom, comes out and says "you made beer, didn't you".  

"How did you know?"

"You forgot to repaint the ceiling."

When I bottle condition I always fill a plastic bottle alongside my glass bottles so I can squeeze it to gauge its firmness and carbonation progress.

Yes, fermentation can still take place in the refrigerator. I am an experienced pizza maker. Pizza dough is proofed in the refrigerator and will rise significantly. It can double or triple in size even in restaurant walk-in refrigerators which might be kept a little colder than home refrigerators.

Thanks for all the great info! I keep running into conflicting wisdom for priming sugar amounts. Every brew I've made has been undercarbed with ~1oz per gallon. Is 1.5oz safe or do you risk bombs? Thinking about upping the amount in my next brew, but I'd rather have flat beer than bombs 😅

Good advice: Refrigeration does not stop fermentation! I've even had forgotten bottles of apple juice turn fizzy in the fridge, which is actually quite nice!

You read my mind! This is the exact information that I needed for my current wine. Natural 20 good sir!

Great video! Now I have another one up my sleeve if someone asks me “how did you manage to make this fizzy?”
I’ll just send them to your channel… (and hope they get hooked!). 😇

Thank you so much for doing this video. It really helped me to understand natural carbonation, which I was really struggling with. You and Danica are so good at explaining and teaching. I really appreciate you both!

THANK YOU! we made a micro brew several years ago and it carbonated and we had no idea what we did so we couldn't replicate the effect and now we can

Thanks for making me realize I just made short-fused bottle breakers. I am only 2 days in so I can still vent and recover.

Great little video. I've successfully carbonated a few fermentations now thanks to city steadying and not one bottle bomb 👍. I've been using the flip top bottles or twelve ounce soda bottles with reusable corks from Walmart.
I've found that using about three quarters ounce of sugar per gallon and four tspns (or four single serve packets) of stevia work great for sweetness with moderate carbonation.  I've only had one bottle bomb in all of my fermentations, and it was only because I used a recycled wine carafe to store new wine in and it had a screw top instead of a pressure relief top. yes, those tops are quite frequently used in Europe and other countries. And they're reusable (if not damaged from overpressurization).
Your comments on the swing top bottles  are correct also. I've experienced leakage around the seal from an apple cider recipe that I added too much sugar. Yes, I love my drinks sweet 😁👍.
Thanks again and keep cookin and we'll keep learning ❤️.

This helped me a lot, thank you!

I just started my first batch of apple cider, thank you so much for the inspiring videos!

Thanks for the video and the great information.

Great video on a topic people find difficult. I second the Aldi lemonade bottles for carbonation. Brilliant, I use them for carbonated beverages,  including cider and wine.

I used 42 g of white sugar to bottle carb

Waited 3 weeks in my bomb shelter

Chilled it for 24 hours

Carbonated super well

Thanks for all your videos

Excellently done video :)
This will be a great resource for beginners.
Great job !!!

Awesome, thanks for this... 🥇

Good video!!  I should copy paste this to Reddit sometimes as some don’t know much about making sparkling wine and like to argue when they haven’t been making it like me for 3 years.

revisited your video, I caught your reference to twist top plastic bottles. These are very popular in home brew beer The bottles are brown,"beer" bottles of 750mls (Australia.)We can buy new twist tops anywhere.