Why did my first bottle destroy my kitchen?

[Captain Crisp]

Just opened my first ever home-brewed bottle and it erupted over my wife, son and basically drenched the whole kitchen... left about a cm of quite tasty IPA in the bottom.
Is this normal?

 

[MickDundee]

We might need more info about what it was, how long you fermented, how much piming sugar you used etc, but it will most likely be due to one of the following:

• Bottled before it had finished fermenting
• Too much priming sugar
• Bottles not clean enough
• Too much hop debris in the bottles causing nucleation point
• Wild yeast infection

 

[pms67]

Most likely the bottle had something in it to cause a “gusher”
It happens from time to time, if the bottle wasn’t cleaned 100% or some wild yeast? Or something else caused it to go bad, hopefully it isn’t the full batch, make sure the next ones well chilled and open outside!
Sorry mate but I did have a chuckle at the image in my head

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Is this normal?

Not normal but not unheard of -

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/bottle-bombs.77190/
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/my-first-bottle-bomb.35582/

 

[Furry Shark Brewery]

Made me chuckle but I felt for you. Am sure that one cm was tasty. This video from Daft Cat Brewing is useful to watch.

 

[terrym]

@Captain Crisp
If you have had one bottle erupt you need to be careful with the others, whatever the reason. After gushers its exploding bottles.
So I suggest you carefully move all your bottles into a cool safe place away from where any exploding bottles can cause any damage and then put one or two in the fridge before very carefully opening outside.
If you bottled too early (did you use a hydrometer to indicate the primary fermentation had finished?), or used more than say 7 to 8g of priming sugar per litre, that would be the most likely cause of your overcarbed beer, although as @MickDundee mentioned other causes are possible.