Your Exploding Beers; Cans, Bottles, etc.

Did you tell the brewery what happened @LuckFreeZone ?

I reported my problems with both beers I outlined in this thread and found both breweries to welcome the information, making it seem like they were learning from their mistakes. It still makes me nervous to buy beer from a company that has shown an improper ability to package their beer, but at least knowing they're learning from it is helpful.

 

I had a can of beer that exploded. The contents were no longer in the can, they were on a surface. That surface was my kitchen table. Riveting shit.

 

not an explosion exactly but recently moving beers in my fridge and went to pull cans off a 4pk plastic cap topper and one can somehow caught itself on the topper and proceeded to spray beer on me, my fridge's exterior, the floor, and my fridges interior-sucked and never happened before

 

I had not but after reading your post I sent them a quick email to let them know.

 

aka "The Law Of Unplanned Bier Physics" which states a beer upon occasion will spontaneously turn into an overpressurized Bier Bomb!

 

I had a can explode in my trunk driving home from the store. Nothing like a bourbon barrel aged stout smell in your trunk in Houston during the summer. When I was cleaning off the rest of the four pack, another opened up and sprayed beer. The other two became deformed. When I poured them into a glass, I had one inch of liquid and 8 inches of head.

I contacted the brewery about it and they sent me a refund, hand written apology letter, an invite if I'm ever in town, and a coozie.

 

I received a nice email back from the brewery. I think they handled it well.

 

Exploding cans are a pain. Exploding bottles are legitimately dangerous.

 

I have had two incidents of this nature. Two cans of Lost Nation Gose and a can of Niteshift Trifecta. All in my pantry cabinet. The Lost Nation one was pretty loud, but since we have cats random loud noises are a regular thing, so thought nothing of it until I started smelling beer near the cabinet. That was long enough for it to go from sticky liquid mess to The Kragle holding everything to the shelves including the broken beer glasses. Handled graciously by the brewery with replacement beer and nice Willi Bechers. Didn't sweat the Trifecta - wasn't very good, but but have wondered whether it was a below average beer or something else.

I had pictures somewhere but basically the top of the cans "domed" and eventually split. I forget the pressure limits on cans and I should know them because we make carbonated products. I know we carbonate to 2.5 - 2.7 volumes of CO2 and there's not a ton of wiggle room when you think about tunnel pasteurization.

 

My dad always tells the story of him falling asleep to the sound of grandpa’s home brews exploding in the basement. Allegedly enough force to bury glass in the walls of the wooden beer box he used...

 

I had a lone star smoked porter blow up on me, and one bottle of homebrew blow up. That was crazy, the neck of the bottle was 20 feet across the basement after the explosion.

 

Just two events with damaged vessels:

1. Some New Republic cans had seams that weren't 100% air tight. Beer didn't spew out or anything crazy, but there was a tiny bit of residue at the bottom of the cans on the seams, and the beer had almost no carbonation. New Republic thanked me for bringing in the cans (they suspected they've had some trouble with their canning machine) and gave me a replacement six-pack free of charge. Nice people!

2. This:

About a year ago I bought a four-pack of Lone Pine Yellow Rose, got home and found one of the bottles had an almost perfect circle cut out of it. Weirdest thing ever.

 

Desperate (and determined) mice?

 

The bottles bump up against each other right where the hole was, but it's not a recurring problem, so who knows? Maybe it was mice.

 

One time I was bringing some beers in through my cellar and a stout bottle which I had unwisely laid on top of a case of cans rolled off while I was still carrying the case. I used my lightning reflexes to partially catch it on my foot, saving it from smashing on the concrete floor. Unfortunately, the impact was still enough to loosen the cap just enough to start spraying a stream of beer. By the time I put down the box and ran the bottle over to the sink, there was beer all over the place and only a third of the beer was still in the bottle.

Despite some determined mopping, it took the beer smell a week or two to go away.

 

My mother-in law has been enjoying kettled sours over many other things I have been showing her. I live local to a Fieldwork taproom, and I try to get what I can when they release offerings from their Parfait series. I new I was seeing the in-laws soon, so I swooped on getting some strawberry parfait.
A couple days later, I finally walk into my in-laws house. I set my box of brews on the ground near the stairs and don't think anything of it. We ate supper, cleaned up, and I realized I forgot to put the beer in the fridge. I bend over, picked up the pack of strawberry parfaits in a cddy, and 3 cans shot off like old faithful. The walls, furniture, flooring, pictures (you name it) was covered in this glorious pinkish-syrupy liquid. I stood there not knowing what to say or how to react.
Everyone in the house wants to know what just happened. I try to bring my dogs over to lick up the mess, but they refused to lap up the spillage (thanks "mans best friend"). To make it worse, the beer was extremely sticky since it was brewed with lactose and strawberry. It wasn't a fun cleanup, and it was a waste of 3 fairly expensive cans. The remaining two cans were put in solitary confinement in fear of imminent self destruction.