Exploding Stone 17th Annivesary

Anyone else have similar issues? My bottle blew up on me before I had a chance to refrigerate it, which is my own fault. Wondering if it was an isolated incident or if anyone else has heard of similar stories.

 

Per Stone it should have been refrigerated constantly. My own fault for leaving it out of refrigeration for 4 hours.

 

Anyways, just checking to see if anyone else has had similar issues.

 

I emailed Stone last week right after it happened. No response.

Basically I was running errands around town, stopped by my local bottle shop and picked up the Coconut IPA, Stone 17th and a few others that just arrived, dropped them off at the house with the wife and headed off for more errands. Didn't want them sitting in the car all day. Got home, cooked dinner and forgot about them. I awoke at 12:45am to what I thought was my cat knocking them over. I had left them on the dining room table and when I went into the dining room they weren't there. My wife had moved them to my closet, where I keep most of my beers that are "in waiting". She luckily put it on the bottom shelf. So it had sat there for 4 hours, unmoved. It seems to have burst form the side, given that there was a piece of glass two feet to the left from where the rest of remnants of glass lay, behind a canvas poster. The cap was intact. The bottom was unharmed. I got all the pieces together and took a picture, though I forgot to do so of the closet.

 

May have been merely a bottle defect. Given that it happened overnight, there wouldn't have been any issue with it heating up and pressure building. Bottle conditioning + bottle defect perhaps?

 

Working on that now, stupid formatting.

Unfortunately tossed the remnants, not worth leaving broken glass lying around, especially with small nosey mammals. No lawyer necessary. Pretty sick of getting lawyers involved with beer.

 

You can notice that the lowest point on the bottle there is a small chunk missing. Likely a bottle defect/bubble on the inside. Recarbination/bottle condition = higher pressure. Likely the cause. I know this was an issue with the Life and Limb bottles last year.

 

My closet now smells of hoppy deliciousness. Not the worst thing to happen.