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Recently brewed 2 gallons of blueberry mead. Everything went fine. Finished fermenting at .099. RACKED it after 6 weeks and it is crystal clear. Probably the best looking mead I've done yet. Anyways, I bottled it into several 16oz bottles. That was 2 months ago. Yesterday I decided to open one for quality control. It was highly carbonated. Most half the volume by the time I got it under control. Worried about bottle bombs, I decided to check the rest of the bottles, probably a half dozen or so. None of the others showed the slightest bit of carbonation. Just the one bottle. How can this be? Shouldn't they all be carbonated? No backsweetening was done. No yeast evident. All stored under the same conditions, temp, etc.

I'm at a loss to explain this one.
 
You can't expect it not to continue to ferment or have restarts even as much as two years after bottling if you don't stabilize it. Just because the others didn't blow up won't mean they won't blow up later. Even if you don't see a drop in gravity for months, it doesn't mean anything. You need to stabilize, or you will most likely have bombs at some point. Or, at the least, gushers when you open it up.
 
I understand that but every other bottle has zero carbonation buildup while the one had more then enough for all. You would think the rest would at least show a hint of carbonation but none....
 
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