Saturday, February 13, 2010

Kablooie with Fermentation


Yesterday, while working out in the garden, both Jed and I heard a massive BOOM! followed by the sound of shattering glass. We both looked at each other and then ran into the house. We came into the house to find that one of my bottles of home made hard cider had fermented after being bottled and had enough pressure build up to blow up the bottle.... not just just a little, but epic bottle blowing of doom. We had glass embedded in the walls and found large shards of glass more than 30+ feet away. We're still sweeping up glass bits that we keep finding in unexpected areas, like the garage. What this teaches us is that we should always, always drink our hard cider before this happens. Or on a more sober note, just put the bottles into the fridge after bottling so that the fermentation process slows down. We'll post the images of the glass in the wall and the debris after Jed uploads them.

3 comments:

  1. So could that be used as a very very long fuse?
    *snicker*

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  2. A very long fuse that only works in the sunlight and can not be timed..... Well at least it smells good.

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