Bottle went BANG!

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Bottle went BANG!

Post by Fil » Sun Sep 22, 2013 4:18 pm

Just housekeeping and cleaning out the bottles recently supped from and not rinsed out, i used a tiny amount of £shop wizz laundry oxy in warm water in each bottle and fliped the lids up n sealled and forgot about em..

i normally am pretty good about rinsing out me bottles and standing em to dry so all are ready for a bulk soak when used for a brew, but these had been missed as some allways are..

after 20 mins or so BANG!!!!,, and a kitchen covered in glass, i quickly released the lids of the remaining bottles,

Im sure ive done this many times before with all sorts of effervessing cleaning products over the years, ive been bottling in x-grolsh flip tops since i retired the corona bottles..

tho i think i will stick to the bulk soaks from now on..
ist update for months n months..
Fermnting: not a lot..
Conditioning: nowt
Maturing: Challenger smash, and a kit lager
Drinking: dry one minikeg left in the store
Coming Soon Lots planned for the near future nowt for the immediate :(

crafty john

Re: Bottle went BANG!

Post by crafty john » Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:39 pm

I have heard of bottle bombs from bottling too early or over priming, but this is a new one on me. Thanks for sharing I will remember for future reference.

Shed Brewer

Re: Bottle went BANG!

Post by Shed Brewer » Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:34 am

I wonder if this might just have been a damaged or flawed bottle?

Even so, caution is wise :-)

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