Scared I may get bottle bombs...

[monkhouse]

Hi, I'm not exactly a newbie at this kit brewing lark but fear I may have just made my first newbie like mistake!
Basically I've just finished bottling a wherry,
I did everything according to the basic instructions except I added a 500g bag of medium dsm too just to boost abv a bit and generally to experiment as I must have done about 6 wherry kits in the past without any issues and wanted to play around a bit with it.
Anyway the sg was 1.055 and I left it alone for over 2 weeks, airlock activity had stopped.
Upon doing a hydrometer check just before bottling I got a reading of 1.016 which considering the high sg I thought it was low enough.
The trial jar when I tasted it seemed to have more body than any other ale I've sampled at bottling stage but I went ahead blindly anyway and added 85g of boiled brown sugar for batch priming.
It's only really occurred to me that I may have just wasted this batch and could well be mopping up beer and shards of glass off my cellar floor in the next few days...
I've never had a bottle bomb before but now I got the jitters..

Everything was sterilised (and considering I have no hot running water it's a hard and lengthy job to do this!) so I had to go ahead with the bottling. What are your thoughts?

[Fil]

You should be ok But take the precaution of keeping the bottles your conditioning in a plastic box with an old towel draped over the top of em.

the 'danger period is when your conditioning at warmer temps for the first few weeks, the relationship between temperature and the volume of co2 that can readily be absorbed by beer is well understood cool/cold beer/liquids can absorb more co2 than warm beer/liquids, so the bottles will be under maximum pressure at the end of the warm conditioning period, once cooled the pressure inside the bottles will diminish. on opening they may be a little livley, if so just chill down further than you normally would..

[monkhouse]

Well I've taken your advice on board and put all the bottles in plastic box to contain any damage, fingers crossed eh!

[hophit]

I made a similar mistake before. If you are using regular crown caps you can very gently lift the side of the cap with a regular bottle opener to release some pressure/CO2 and they will just reseal. Works a treat.