Here's my story.
About 3-4 weeks ago my dorm room started smelling like beer for some reason. I thought this was odd because I always wash out all my bottles but sometimes I delay a day so whatever.
A little while after that I notice a piece of glass on my bathroom floor. This is odd because I haven't broken glass recently. I decide maybe maintenance was around and treaded some glass in or a friend or such. Odd though.
Today I go to restock the fridge, lift up a 24-pack (mixed homebrew) and notice a weird crunching noise and that it's sticking to the box below it. I open it up and low and behold, something went bang.
No beer was present so this explains the beer smell a few weeks. Glass had gotten around and was sticking to other bottles so I conclude that it stuck to a bottle I put in the fridge and then it fell off when the bottle was being rinsed out or something. Two things explained.
Curious thing, the bottled that appeared to explode was a bottle from a brew-on-premise shop, which uses counter-pressure fillers. My understanding is that these bottles don't have live yeast (pretty sure they said they filtered it) and it is therefore very unlikely that they turn into bottle bombs.
So my question is: Did the bottle explode or did it get crushed?
Evidence:
Glass got everywhere. The box was a Sam Adams 24-pack (also a Sam Adams bottle re-capped). The bottle was on one side of the box and there was glass shards on the neck of bottles on the opposite side of the box, with 4 bottles in between.
Cracking: the bottle was in three main segments, the bottom of the bottle, which also had one transverse crack splitting in two; the main section, also had a crack going the full up-down length and another crack going half way up from the bottom; the next of the bottle which separated at the shoulder (only the very top of the neck was still in a ring, with the cap, the rest was all over the box.
The shrapnel and stuff indicated to me that it might have been an explosion. But the counter-pressure filling indicates otherwise. Also, some of the cracking (specifically on the bottom of the bottle) seems to indicate might have been a crush.
I'm really interested (mostly for interest's sake) in what may have happened here and this is how I found these forums. Let me know if you have any ideas.
Also, my room has a thermo-stat and is kept around 68-71 degrees Fahrenheit pretty much all the time (unlikely to be a temp flux problem).
~ KB12
About 3-4 weeks ago my dorm room started smelling like beer for some reason. I thought this was odd because I always wash out all my bottles but sometimes I delay a day so whatever.
A little while after that I notice a piece of glass on my bathroom floor. This is odd because I haven't broken glass recently. I decide maybe maintenance was around and treaded some glass in or a friend or such. Odd though.
Today I go to restock the fridge, lift up a 24-pack (mixed homebrew) and notice a weird crunching noise and that it's sticking to the box below it. I open it up and low and behold, something went bang.
No beer was present so this explains the beer smell a few weeks. Glass had gotten around and was sticking to other bottles so I conclude that it stuck to a bottle I put in the fridge and then it fell off when the bottle was being rinsed out or something. Two things explained.
Curious thing, the bottled that appeared to explode was a bottle from a brew-on-premise shop, which uses counter-pressure fillers. My understanding is that these bottles don't have live yeast (pretty sure they said they filtered it) and it is therefore very unlikely that they turn into bottle bombs.
So my question is: Did the bottle explode or did it get crushed?
Evidence:
Glass got everywhere. The box was a Sam Adams 24-pack (also a Sam Adams bottle re-capped). The bottle was on one side of the box and there was glass shards on the neck of bottles on the opposite side of the box, with 4 bottles in between.
Cracking: the bottle was in three main segments, the bottom of the bottle, which also had one transverse crack splitting in two; the main section, also had a crack going the full up-down length and another crack going half way up from the bottom; the next of the bottle which separated at the shoulder (only the very top of the neck was still in a ring, with the cap, the rest was all over the box.
The shrapnel and stuff indicated to me that it might have been an explosion. But the counter-pressure filling indicates otherwise. Also, some of the cracking (specifically on the bottom of the bottle) seems to indicate might have been a crush.
I'm really interested (mostly for interest's sake) in what may have happened here and this is how I found these forums. Let me know if you have any ideas.
Also, my room has a thermo-stat and is kept around 68-71 degrees Fahrenheit pretty much all the time (unlikely to be a temp flux problem).
~ KB12