First beer explosion!

I had a four pack, I wasn't stupid.

I found it disappointing either way. It was rather underwhelming, and it had a phenolic, tire like, aftertaste that I only had two other times: once with New Belgium Coconut Curry Hefeweizen (which tasted amazing, had it not been for the aftertaste), and once with a Pinot Noir.

 

So you walked away from the bottle, your girlfriend went towards the bottle and it mysteriously broke?

Maybe she dropped it and it's all an elaborate cover-up from there

 

When I worked at a liquor store in the states this happened from time to time. I remember a 6-pack of Ballast Point, their kolsch I think, went off one by one once. One day a bottle started leaking and foaming a bit. No on thought much of it, just got rid of the bottle. The next day another. The third day a bottle exploded on the shelf, and a few hours later another. Beer and glass everywhere. I took the final two and opened them outside; the beer shot out of from the top after opening a good foot or two into the air.

 

I've had homebrew bottles blow up before, one time in my hand (jamming it into a ice cooler, luckily I only got a few cuts).

never had commercial bottles blow-up tho.

 

Just had a Struise-made (so it says on the label) Westoek XX (not single X -- what's going on there? anyway...) almost completely empty itself, audibly expelling beer not just over the lip but physically into the air, or so it seemed. But no glass breakage, no projectile bottle-vomit onto the ceiling. I don't know the flavor profile well enough to know if something went badly awry -- couple sips worth of captured foam settled down into a not particularly big and somwhat sour tripel -- or it was just "one of those." As I like to say on a ski lift, mountain road, zip line, that kind of thing -- there must be a failure rate and it's not zero. That goes for glass as well as beer. But do keep a hand on any corks, BTW, that is fairly common. People who helped clean up for the 3F disaster (crossing myself) report having corks fire *through* the plastic picnic table they were trying to use as a backstop. But that at least had an obvious and anticipated cause.

 

... And there goes No. 2. I tried another bottle and this was def'ly a volcano send liquid hard into the air. I guess I'm into shame-on-me territory for trying again. Thoughts on causes, effects and any mitigations?