Recapping a Batch

After talking to the helpful people at my local homebrew supply store I decided to re-cap my (currently) disastrous batch four. First I stuck all the bottles in the fridge for a couple of hours so the C02 would be less likely to come out of solution. Then I grabbed one and popped the cap. No foam came out and I though I was good to go. I set the bottle down and turned to do something else for a minute, and when I came back foam was coming out at a good clip. Pretty soon the level of the beer was well below the bottom of the neck. Once the foaming stopped I poured the remaining beer into a glass and tried it. It wasn't great but I've bought worse.

With the rest I decided to just barely crack the seal, hoping that a slower release would result in less beer loss. It worked, though I ended up having to give each cap several gentle prys until I got the optimal opening. Even with patience a couple of bottles lost about a quarter of their contents, and all lost some. Once the flow stopped from the bottles I boiled some caps and re-sealed the bottles. I put the batch back in the basement to cool-ish condition for a week and I will sample it again in week or so.

Hopefully this is the first and last time I have to perform a re-capping.