[Sca-cooks] Yet another Drakey story

[Stefan li Rous]

> > " a) NEVER fill a fermenter past half full when brewing it," ?
> You'll have to ask my other half about the milk bomb story... It's a
> doozy of a 'drakey' but I dare not tell for fear of flooding the list
> with witty replies...
>
> Drakey.
>
> I have an idea what happened anyway... I did something similar trying 
> to make
> sparkeling cider at home. I put the cider in a two liter coke bottle 
> and
> sealed it while fermenting, figuring it handled carbonated drink
> before...sooo...., I DID have enough sense to bleed off the pressure a
> few times a day, but one
> night there was an ungodly roar in the kitchen and there was cider 
> EVERYWHERE
> in the kitchen.
>
> Corwyn

Yes, but I suspect there is a big difference between splattering 
half-brewed soon souring milk everywhere and splattering half-brewed 
apple juice everywhere...  Not the time to have wall to wall carpet.

Stefan
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