Hmmm.... First time that has happened.

[Socrates_the_Dog]

I use plastic carboys to avoid the obvious pitfalls of glass ( mainly the dreaded carboy bomb ). The other night I was cleaning a carboy after racking 5 gallons of Edwort's Apfelwein to a secondary. I finished rinsing it and set it on the kitchen counter and focused my attention on washing other things, such as air locks, bungs, racking tubes, etc. Well, just about then, in comes the dog. And with one wag of his tail, off goes the carboy, onto the floor. At this point I''m thinking, " thank God it's plastic ". I pick it up and set it back on the counter, and continue cleaning. I then fill said carboy with water and Oxyclean and put in my equipment room.
The next day, I look into the carboy to see how well the Oxyclean is doing, and to my surprise....... it's empty. Oh, and 5 gallons of water is on the floor.
The impact had caused a crack in the bottom...... Mental note: put important things up higher than Great Dane tail height ( at least 4 feet ).

 

[ArcaneXor]

That's been known to happen if you overload the bottom edge of a full Better Bottle. Still, this is much better than being showered with glass shards.

 

[Socrates_the_Dog]

True, glass shards would suck. This one was empty....... I guess I'll be looking for another Better Bottle this weekend.

 

[eriktlupus]

the plastic was likely stressed in some way to cause a crack in an empty bottle. just be glad that it wasn't full of beer and youd picked it up when it let go.

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

That's been known to happen if you overload the bottom edge of a full Better Bottle. Still, this is much better than being showered with glass shards.

...or having the entire bottom of a glass carboy come of in one piece, hitting you on your bare foot.