[Sca-cooks] Blowing up Fermenters (Was: Entertaining storiesfor Lainie)

[Karen O]

I was given a bottle of root beer by a friend before I moved into the dorm
at college.  Having a small refrigerator, I put it in there & never quite
got around to drinking it.  It lived in there for about a year (maybe
longer), then it came time to move out & into an apartment.  I started to
clean the dorm room, and part of that process was, of course, cleaning out
the fridge.  I set the bottle on the counter, did a few things, and went to
the other side of the (very small) room, crawled under the desk to pick
things up, and ka-boom!!!  A chunk of bottle whizzed past my ear, more
chunks embedded themselves in the ceiling and walls - took me a couple of
seconds to figure out what had happened.  Well, then I had to clean *that *
up as well.  Fortunately,  Crest toothpaste matched the color of the wall
perfectly - it makes great spackle......

Morgan (using Caointiarn's addy)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Evans" <mathilde at borg.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Blowing up Fermenters (Was: Entertaining storiesfor
Lainie)


> Blowing up your booze is part of brewing. Nothing like that muffled
> "thwoompth" from downstairs to let you know that the yeast wasn't quite
> finished working and that you now have a really big sticky mess with
broken
> glass bits to clean up. AND you have to think whether the other bottles in
> the batch are gonna blow, too.
>
> Mathilde, who's been there AND done that AND got the smiley T-shirt with
> "Got Wine?" on it
>
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