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I did it. I blew one up...
I made a hoegarden clone with 150 g of sanitarium puffed wheat an ESB 3kg wheat kit, 700g light honey, 30g crushed corriander and the rind from 2 mandarins.
Anyway I bottled after about 10 days and primed them very well with a heaped half teaspoon of sugar in each stubbie. about 2 weeks later I went under the house to store the next brew and there was a bit of glass around. Seems I lost one.

I got a bit concerned that some more would go up so after I cleaned up the glass that had actually travelled a couple of metres ( i never heard it. I suppose I wasn't home) I went around with a tea towel and opened every bottle, let the gas out then re sealed by twisting the caps back on with the tea towel. None seemed to have explosive pressure but 2 or 3 did want to bubble over. Hopefully that is the end of it but I'm kinda glad I have now had an explosion to validate the urban myths about home brew and bottle explosions. I has taken me about 30 brews to blow up one stubbie and I'm pretty sure it was from over priming but still.

The beer is beautiful by the way. Early in it's life but it is already fabulous. I highly recommend my version of the hoegarden clone.

(Touch wood) I haven't had an explosion yet....

But my recent batch of Golden Ale had an overcarb problem. I attempted something similar to yourself - crack the seal on the lid and release pressure then re-seal. The caps were twisties and the moment I twisted them the cap shot upwards and hit the ceiling. I'll have to chill the next lot before I try that again....

Hi Gibovski.

I'm not saying this is correct, but it may be that you had an infection in that particular stubbie. This will cause the beer to carb up a lot more than normal. I've had it happen to me once in 12 years of brewing.

Cheers

Tommy

I've only had one bottle explode. I reckon I must have been drunk when I primed and put two (or perhaps three!) doses in a Pickaxe longneck.

I didn't hear it blow, but there must have been a hell of a lot of pressure in there as there were big shards of glass embedded in the shelf above the blown bottle in The Beer Cupboard. The amount of pressure is not surprising given the strength of those good old Pickaxe bottles.

I reckon it would have done a hell of a lot of damage if it had been in the open, or worse still if there's been flesh close by.

Oliver

I have recently had three explode on me during the hot weather we had in November, reckon I better wear some protective clothing in the shed during Jan & Feb.

I'm pretty sure they weren't over primed but maybe I had bottled the brews a bit to soon, one of them I bottled in May the others in June, so they were 6 and 5 month old bottles respectfully, which I thought would have been long enough to be past the danger period.

Both brews were lagers brewed with Saflager 23, my first and second attempts at lagers so maybe I did bottle to soon, Any hoo they tasted pretty good.

Cheers

Steven.