So I going a local shop, looking for stone coffee milk stout, and the proprietor points to cases of bombers on the floor and says those are $20. Some are older stock, some not so old, I ask if they are 4 for $20 and he says $20 a case mix and match. So I assemble a case and go home. Smash cut to three hours later a bottle of stone smoked porter with chocolate and orange explodes on my kitchen floor, the neck shot up and hit the ceiling, the rest of the bottle was in pieces within the divider. Thought I'd ask the BA experts what might have happened?
This thread may help: http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/wtf-random-cracked-exploding-bottle.85461/
While that is not an everyday event it is not unheard of either. It's possible there was fermentation going on in the bottle but I tend to think not. It was just a defective bottle. Keeping the bottles cold would minimize such events. Let the brewer know though. When I was a kid (a thousand years ago) glass bottles were the norm for soda pop, some grocers would have a plastic (strips) barrier in front of the pop as a precaution for exploding bottles. Those things happen.
Were not all stone, three different stone porters, one hifi lofi mix tape, stone hibiscus, three philosophers, sucks, three of that Alaskan rye ipa, and two hefes.
Dude, seriously, where do you shop? We live in the same state and I'm on my way to Home Depot to rent a truck. $20 a case!!!
How much jostling did you give them on the way home? It also sounds like a defective, as in creases, and bubbles in the glass situation the escaped qa/qc. Trust me. These things are damn hard to see when you're moving as fast as you have to during packaging. It could possibly be old, and saggy bottles that sat in a warehouse for too long as well. Bottles are weird things when you put carbonation and movement on them.
It's in Belleville, only one more case, lots of Rouge stuff and tapestry lemon shady is all that was left.
Bob: "I believe there will be no charge for this beer." Doug: "Yeah, like we found this mouse in one of your bottles, eh."
I recall when I did a review of that beer it was a gusher for me, perhaps infected. It's been a year or two since that beer's been available in my area, though.
