Finite
All Grain Gremlin
- Joined
- 17/1/06
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Well I'm proud to say I have earn't my wings today. I have had my first bottle bombs and only on my 2nd batch 
.
I enjoy reading about others disasters so heres the story...
Into: I spend half my year at CSU Wagga Wagga on campus doing BA Multimedia, TV Production. I live in a cottage with 7 other people.
Thursday 9th - I enter the cottage after my last class of the week my friend who lives in the room next to me says "hey mate, theres a weird smell in your room". Now let me say that this is not uncommon at uni or in our cottage. I enter the room and smell a definite off smell, almost citrus like and its not the first time I've smelt it. My brain reacts and computes the info.....you havent emptied your bin you goose, those banana skins and apple cores smell bad after a while mate, I think to myself. I smell the bin and it does smell off. I empty the bin and think nothing of it or the 60L of conditioning beer I have in the cupboard in a tower of milk crates which
Would challenge any architectural skyscraper.
Friday 10th - My girlfriend and I leave town for a night together to celebrate our 3 year anniversary. I toast the night with a longneck of my 1st ever homebrew. Which tastes a teat might I add B), even the missus likes it, which is saying something. (Picture to follow)
Saturday 11th - I return home around midday, have a browse on the BA and AHB websites. Im minding my business listening to some Powderfinger....THUMP..... :blink:......whats that dickhead up to know I think to myself.
Monday 13th, 1:00pm - I return today from the studio, again minding my business again, minus the headphones and powderfinger......BOOOP!!!......WTF? :huh:. "Mother of god" I say aloud. I approach the cupboard but need not open it as my fears are perfectly confirmed by the cascade-like trickle I can hear behind the wooden doors. As I open the door I am presented with a yellow rivulet of partial mash wheat beer, insuming the bottom surface of my cupboard..........Proceed to DEFCON 1! I reach for my trusty yellow bucket, grab the cardboard box containing my sterilizing materials and Im off like a rocket to the sink. Mix up the solution, sterilise the caps. I even thew on one of my Fox mountain bike gloves and some glasses just in case a bottle felt the need to release 150g of glass into my hands and eyes. I opened all the bottles and as I assumed, some gushed over the rim for several minutes. I put those aside. The main thing I noticed which should be noted by all who are interested is that of all 3 of the bottles which exploded (all bottles were 375ml)....all of them were Carlton Sterling bottles. Upon further inspection I was shocked at how thin and poorly constructed they were. Not only were they thin, they were unevenly moulded. The front side of the bottle was 3mm thick while the side which blew out on 2/3 of the bottles, the rear was only 1mm thick. Last time I use my dads old bottles.
Lost: 3
Saved: 50
Gushed (only good for a day): 9
Determined to not loose any more beer, needless to say I have had a very moist Monday lunch time.
Im Blake and that was my story,
And here is that picture I promised. My first homebrew ever (Coopers heritage lager), thanks to everyone on this site for their help. I cant believe I made such a great tasting beer.
P.S: I still have no idea why they were exploding, fementation was finnished and I put 1 carbonisation drop per 375ml bottle (as per instructions).
.I enjoy reading about others disasters so heres the story...
Into: I spend half my year at CSU Wagga Wagga on campus doing BA Multimedia, TV Production. I live in a cottage with 7 other people.
Thursday 9th - I enter the cottage after my last class of the week my friend who lives in the room next to me says "hey mate, theres a weird smell in your room". Now let me say that this is not uncommon at uni or in our cottage. I enter the room and smell a definite off smell, almost citrus like and its not the first time I've smelt it. My brain reacts and computes the info.....you havent emptied your bin you goose, those banana skins and apple cores smell bad after a while mate, I think to myself. I smell the bin and it does smell off. I empty the bin and think nothing of it or the 60L of conditioning beer I have in the cupboard in a tower of milk crates which
Would challenge any architectural skyscraper.
Friday 10th - My girlfriend and I leave town for a night together to celebrate our 3 year anniversary. I toast the night with a longneck of my 1st ever homebrew. Which tastes a teat might I add B), even the missus likes it, which is saying something. (Picture to follow)
Saturday 11th - I return home around midday, have a browse on the BA and AHB websites. Im minding my business listening to some Powderfinger....THUMP..... :blink:......whats that dickhead up to know I think to myself.
Monday 13th, 1:00pm - I return today from the studio, again minding my business again, minus the headphones and powderfinger......BOOOP!!!......WTF? :huh:. "Mother of god" I say aloud. I approach the cupboard but need not open it as my fears are perfectly confirmed by the cascade-like trickle I can hear behind the wooden doors. As I open the door I am presented with a yellow rivulet of partial mash wheat beer, insuming the bottom surface of my cupboard..........Proceed to DEFCON 1! I reach for my trusty yellow bucket, grab the cardboard box containing my sterilizing materials and Im off like a rocket to the sink. Mix up the solution, sterilise the caps. I even thew on one of my Fox mountain bike gloves and some glasses just in case a bottle felt the need to release 150g of glass into my hands and eyes. I opened all the bottles and as I assumed, some gushed over the rim for several minutes. I put those aside. The main thing I noticed which should be noted by all who are interested is that of all 3 of the bottles which exploded (all bottles were 375ml)....all of them were Carlton Sterling bottles. Upon further inspection I was shocked at how thin and poorly constructed they were. Not only were they thin, they were unevenly moulded. The front side of the bottle was 3mm thick while the side which blew out on 2/3 of the bottles, the rear was only 1mm thick. Last time I use my dads old bottles.
Lost: 3
Saved: 50
Gushed (only good for a day): 9
Determined to not loose any more beer, needless to say I have had a very moist Monday lunch time.
Im Blake and that was my story,
And here is that picture I promised. My first homebrew ever (Coopers heritage lager), thanks to everyone on this site for their help. I cant believe I made such a great tasting beer.
P.S: I still have no idea why they were exploding, fementation was finnished and I put 1 carbonisation drop per 375ml bottle (as per instructions).
