crisis narrowly averted

[madhatter63]

picked up my 5 gal carboy to dump sanitizer and the bottom fell right off.... had it hung in there for another 15 min. I would have had a catastrophe.... Anybody not so lucky??

 

[j1n]

Nope, that's why i use plastic. Probably will never use glass, only plastic and SS.

 

[philipCT]

I was not so lucky.

I had a clogged airlock, pressure built up and it blew the bottom right off my 6.5 gal glass carboy, ruining a batch of Rye Pale Ale. The only saving grace was the whole deal was in a converted yogurt fridge that turned out to be water tight so the clean-up was a contained affair.

Fortunately also, there were no injuries but I've always considered spilling beer a sin, so that was injury enough

 

[madhatter63]

yeah, I think my replacement will be a "wort safe" plastic carboy.

 

[Riot]

8 gallon buckets man. Can't really break them, and fill line is only limited by your courage and blow off tube.

 

[Minbari]

I was not so lucky.

I had a clogged airlock, pressure built up and it blew the bottom right off my 6.5 gal glass carboy, ruining a batch of Rye Pale Ale. The only saving grace was the whole deal was in a converted yogurt fridge that turned out to be water tight so the clean-up was a contained affair.

Fortunately also, there were no injuries but I've always considered spilling beer a sin, so that was injury enough

lucky, my brother had a 3 gallon glass carboy explode on him. was a cider container that he didnt clean and just put the lid back on. it exploded while he was not home. glass was stuck in the cabinets, blew threw his glass pantry door. lucky no one was home.