by Paul Bennett » Thursday Sep 08, 2005 11:36 am
When you make a DIY ginger beer for the very first time, bottle it in soft-drink bottles and don't point them at your eyes. Let them mature outside somewhere, or in a box. I bottled my first ginger beer (from a recipe from the ABC website) and four bottles exploded in my car, glass shards and splinters sticking into the headlining and door panels. By a lucky chance, I was inside a shop at the time. Had I been on the highway, there would have been a really nasty accident. Exploding glass bottles are really, really dangerous, and can never be a joke.
It wasn't just the vibrations of the car, either. I had a 1.2-litre PET bottle blow up in the bathroom, and it went straight up like a rocket and bored a perfect hole in the Gyprock ceiling, then span around in circles before falling.