My wort may be an inconvenience but my bottle bombs are deadly.
My wife just had her 50th Birthday (easy fellas...she doesn't look a day over 30) and prior to preparing myself for the evening (easy) I felt the need to pasteurize eight 22oz bottles of hard cider. Having read that 15 min at 150 deg would do the trick I filled up the kettle with water and bottled cider...and a thermometer.
Time slipped by as we enjoyed some Patron and one thing led to another...Yada, yada, yada...Oh ****! My cider...It's boiling! Turn off the stove!
Whew, that was close I thought as I turned to my wife...Took three steps and !!BOOM!! Ah! I'm hit My natural instinct is to protect the ones I love and as I bear-hug my wife !!BOOM!! KABOOM...
Glass embedded in the ceiling, the wall, and my neck. Broken glass everywhere. Later I find glass that flew about 15 feet down the hall, turned the corner and landed in the front bathroom.
A lesson learned: Patron, pasteurizing, and nooky don't mix.
Now before any of you question my...stamina...It was a big kettle with lots of water. Cold water.
My wife just had her 50th Birthday (easy fellas...she doesn't look a day over 30) and prior to preparing myself for the evening (easy) I felt the need to pasteurize eight 22oz bottles of hard cider. Having read that 15 min at 150 deg would do the trick I filled up the kettle with water and bottled cider...and a thermometer.
Time slipped by as we enjoyed some Patron and one thing led to another...Yada, yada, yada...Oh ****! My cider...It's boiling! Turn off the stove!
Whew, that was close I thought as I turned to my wife...Took three steps and !!BOOM!! Ah! I'm hit My natural instinct is to protect the ones I love and as I bear-hug my wife !!BOOM!! KABOOM...
Glass embedded in the ceiling, the wall, and my neck. Broken glass everywhere. Later I find glass that flew about 15 feet down the hall, turned the corner and landed in the front bathroom.
A lesson learned: Patron, pasteurizing, and nooky don't mix.
Now before any of you question my...stamina...It was a big kettle with lots of water. Cold water.