Bottle Bomb Tester

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

I know, weak outcome Its like lost its "pop".

 

[roadymi]

Come on............When Myth Busters fail to prove a myth..........they always come back with a bigger and badder attempt. Don't give up, never ever give up.

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

Got some C4?

 

[alpha224]

Got some C4?

No, but I know a guy...

 

[alpha224]

Also, this makes me happy I don't need to invest into a kegging system just yet...

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

I just drank one of my "3 day" carbed ciders and it was so good. 3 day meaning I left it out at 74* for 3 days to bottle carb before I placed It in my fridge.

 

[paulster2626]

Come on............When Myth Busters fail to prove a myth..........they always come back with a bigger and badder attempt. Don't give up, never ever give up.

You're right.

Make sugar solution. Put in bottle. Add some yeast - use old slurry, whatever. Check gravity before, and monitor with webcam recording constantly. Capturing the explosion is a definite must. I'd also put a grapefruit or something beside it just for fun.

Also have 2 control vessels that are fermenting as well with the same sugar solution and yeast content. These will be in growlers/whatever with airlock or foil. Check the gravity every now and then and take the average of the two and we can assume nearly the same thing is happening in the bottle.

This whole project should tell us at what reduction in gravity points does a bottle explode. A GREAT science experiment for your kids, actually. They'd get an A+ for this for sure, and it would be hilarious to send kids to school with legitimate alcohol.

Then, do the same experiment but with full 24oz bottles. 12 of them. People can place bets on what will blow first!

Then do a full 5 gallon corny. Sky's the limit, really.

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

We gotta send it to myth busters, go for it!

 

[alpha224]

So, was this a demonstration of the fact that you can Carb cider in the bottle?

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

Sorta, I wanted to see how long it would take for a back sweetend bottle that I wanted to be sparkling, bubbly whatever and still retain its sweetness, how long it would take for it to become a possible "bottle bomb".

 

[dr_al]

i wonder if putting the bottle in the sun defeated the purpose, even though its a brown bottle direct sun light will most likely kill off yeasties.

 

[passedpawn]

i wonder if putting the bottle in the sun defeated the purpose, even though its a brown bottle direct sun light will most likely kill off yeasties.

Why do you say that?

 

[bottlebomber]

Sun won't kill yeast. Where does yeast come from? Outside. It's sunny out there. However the idea is not totally without merit. If the bottle somehow was able to get into the 120-130 range it could have conceivably killed the yeast, but he didn't even out it out for awhile.

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

Yeah it got hot here while I had it under the plastic but I doubt it got over 100*.

 

[agent44]

HBB made himself a solar pasteurizer :rockin:

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

I'm no scientist but I like the idea some one on here mentioned about the yeast not being able to survive in a high pressure environment, or possibly the yeast consumed all the sugars and did its conversion and there was nothing left to convert? I don't know but when I opened that bottle the pressure was a very weak hissssss.

 

[bottlebomber]

I'm no scientist but I like the idea some one on here mentioned about the yeast not being able to survive in a high pressure environment, or possibly the yeast consumed all the sugars and did its conversion and there was nothing left to convert? I don't know but when I opened that bottle the pressure was a very weak hissssss.

That makes me think that with the cap bulged up like it was that maybe c02 escapes out of the sides of the cap.

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

It could have possibly, but when I poured it it was all bubbles.



Allll bubbles man ha ha

 

[Dan]

Hmm..

Bulging Bottle Caps "We let pressure escape for your health's sake"

Could be a slogan for a cider commercial. Hey?

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

Hey...I really want to know what happened. What happens when you shake a soda? It goes flat right? Maybe that's what happened, I'm willing to try it again I guess. Someone else try, I'm sick of wasting ciders ha ha. Well I guess I didn't waste anything but my cider was fizzy fizz fizzed fist

 

[Dan]

There is a guy on here, think it was PassedPawn. He rigged up a pressure gage to the top of a beer bottle to observe the pressure cycle during carbonation.

I don't remember how high it got, but pretty high and then as the CO2 dissolved into the beer the pressure dropped and eventually leveled.

Maybe a similar experiment with cider, except one bottle with the gage be used as reference the other be used with the hopes of if blowing up. They would both would have to undergo the same "brewing cycle, same vessels, same enviormental conditions.

I think you know where I'm going with this.

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

That's a great idea, a screw on pressure gauge, hmmm?

 

[dr_al]

Why do you say that?

solar water disinfection, I learned about it from one of Cody Lundin's books about survival.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_disinfection

I have no idea if it would effect yeast, but I assume they wouldn't do very good in sunlight, i'm no expert it's just what came to mind as a possible reason for a stall in the experiment.

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

The hippy from dual survival? J/k thats a great show. I like the Ranger/green beret better

 

[dr_al]

lol yup the hippy from dual survival, I read his first book a good 10 years? before the show.

 

[passedpawn]

That's a great idea, a screw on pressure gauge, hmmm?

Been done! https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/pressure-gauge-mounted-bottle-cap-268151/

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

It could have been my fill volume too I'm thinking.



I filled my bottles a little low I noticed (and others did too). Maybe all that space was enough for the pressure build up and stop.???

 

[HAREEBROWNBEEST]

Been done! https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/pressure-gauge-mounted-bottle-cap-268151/

That's awsome

 

[Dan]

I think you're onto something there! Post 177

 

[alpha224]

So, as a new brewer, I should take from this that I can make and bottle a woodchuck clone and not worry about bottle bombs? Although, I am planning on using flip-top, Grolsh-style bottles for my batch...anything I should really worry about then?