Boom Goes The Bottle Rocket

[Lincoln2]

Pale ale racked mid-August.
Relocated from cupboard to unpowered fridge (i.e. insulated cupboard) on Sunday.
38 degree day, some minor agitation.
Almost complete vertical lift-off. Plastic casing at in ceiling is quite strong/rigid.
If we can harvest this power and up the scale; we're going to the moon.

 

[Jay Cee]

Fark ! That's impressive. Do you think the other bottles in the batch are likely to go, or is that an isolated matter? You can often tell by the caps bulging in the centre.

 

[Nick JD]

 

[Lincoln2]

Pale ale racked mid-August.
Relocated from cupboard to unpowered fridge (i.e. insulated cupboard) on Sunday.
38 degree day, some minor agitation.
Almost complete vertical lift-off. Plastic casing at in ceiling is quite strong/rigid.
If we can harvest this power and up the scale; we're going to the moon.

That's the last bottle of the batch, very mysterious.

 

[Lincoln2]

I may also need a hard hat. Later that night a mate popped a bottle of a 3 month old lager and the cap shot into the air, ricocheted off the roof and pinged him on the scone. It may be time to use a measuring device other than just my eyes.

 

[Fat Bastard]

Far Out!

Must've been a flaw in that bottle. The missus knocked a lightly carbed bottle of cider off the top of the fridge the other day, a height of about a metre and a half. It landed corner first onto a concrete floor. The bottle didn't break, but the cider got agitated enough to pop the crown seal off. Coopers bottles are supposed to be as strong as hell!

 

[labels]

That would have to be one of the funniest things I've seen on here for a while

 

[Lincoln2]

That would have to be one of the funniest things I've seen on here for a while

On one hand it's funny because it's not my fridge, I've borrowed it from a mate.
On the other hand it's tragic. 750ml of fine pale ale, liberally hopped with Nelson Sauvin, perfect for summer quaffing, lying in a puddle at the bottom of the fridge.

 

[Mardoo]

Where's the drinkin' hole in that thing?

 

[tricache]

Holy crap!! Thats both awesome and freaking scary both at once!

 

[mr_tyreman]

 

[mje1980]

When I first used liquid yeast, I wanted to re use them, so first gen, i'd split into 375ml stubbies. One of the first times, I bottled at high krausen, and put in the fridge. That night, I heard a big BANG. Pretty quickly figured out what it was. I found glass shards embedded in the plastic in the door (still marks there). Freaked me out, so I put the rest in the bin. Every few hours i'd hear one go off. Scary ****. Since then, I use PET for yeast, and top crop, or take the slurry.

P.S that has to be the coolest home brew pic ever!

 

[jyo]

That is amazing. It could have been a very different story, mate. Very lucky.

 

[Logman]

Made my day

 

[JaseH]

I'm thinking this might be more appropriate.

 

[Yob]

+1 for bulk priming

Scary stuff indeed.

 

[stux]

Had a bad batch once... whole crate had a cascading failure...

glass and beer everywhere... not good.

kegs

 

[Tony]

I had a bottle on the edge of explosion shoot the cap in my face a month or so ago.

bloody hurt too.

Bottle was from 2010 i think, and was the last of my bottled beer. I was opening them and pouring them down the drain.

+1 for kegs :wub:

 

[tricache]

I had a bottle on the edge of explosion shoot the cap in my face a month or so ago.

bloody hurt too.

Bottle was from 2010 i think, and was the last of my bottled beer. I was opening them and pouring them down the drain.

+1 for kegs :wub:

OUCH!!!! I might show the wife this pic/thread and see if I can get an upgrade for Christmas :lol:

 

[petesbrew]

Lucky you've still got eyes, Tony!
I usually get a few bottle bombs happening over summer. Keep em covered at all times.

Got an old full asbestos face mask & gortex jacket courtesy of my employer that I use when "de-fusing" dodgy batches.