Exploding Beer Bottle!

You're not going to believe this but it's true and I am tired now after cleaning up the mess. I sit in a chair next to a small table. I am in a trailer that has an addon room that is 10'x20' that isn't heated much, I have a small heater on this table next to my chair. There isn't much room here, all the drinks, boxes of soda, wine, beer, water are out there in the addon and are cold.

I like all my drinks at room temprature or close to it so I bring some in from time to time, I even drink my beer at room temprature, I have bad teeth and cold things can make my teeth hurt. I don't drink much beer so I grab one at a time and have been setting them on the table about 8 or 10 inches in front of the heater for awhile until they aren't too cold. Late last night I got a beer and set it on the table in front of the heater, forgot about it and went to sleep. My iPad and android phone and 2 lasers and a radio I don't use anymore were also on this table.

A short time after I woke up I sat in the chair and unplugged the iPad and picked it up and after checking news alerts I began looking at LPF to check the latest posts, the beer bottle was no more than 2 1/2 feet in front of my face, fortunately I was holding the iPad right in front of my face between me and the bottle of beer. Thank you to LPF and Apple and my addiction to lasers. The bottle exploded like a grenade and was as loud as a gunshot spraying glass shrapnel in all directions and spraying beer 8 feet or more in all directions.

Here is the dangerous brand of beer that exploded with such force.

Alan

You never know where or when the next time you are going to possibly get hurt will happen. Sorry to see that you had one heck of a mess to clean up. Really glad that you did not catch any of that glass in your face!!!

Sounds like it was a really cold beer being heated too rapidly. Not sure it's the beer's fault. I have the same issue with my soda if I put it in the bottom drawer of my fridge and take it out and sit them on the counter. They explode every time. I no longer put them in the bottom drawer.

Before using Beersers you need your Beer Goggles.

I had towed a car with the E-brake left on and the brake shoes were smoking when I got it to the lot, I walked away and BANG the tire that had likely been run low before and had a weak side wall exploded, brake dust went everywhere like a grey cloud.

We get some close calls in life, the best thing to do is learn from them. :beer:

Pi, you are one lucky guy. I knew a kid that was working as a landscaper and it was a very hot day and his rake touched a beer bottle that was full and exploded and yes he lost an eye, till this day he won't drink a Budweiser as he vividly remembers the brand.
Red and actually anybody with common sense will find this story just pure "I really don't know what to call it" Years ago I worked at a metal plant that basicly made steel panel boxes such as fire panels, electrical panels etc. There was a man who worked the big shears that cut to size the metal as it came in from the truck and he was missing his pointer finger. I never asked him how just assuming it was a shearing accident from that machine. After 4 years of working there I decided to ask someone on my last day. He had gone hunting in the snow and was climbing under some brush and decided to put his finger in the shotgun barrel to keep out the snow and a tree limb hit the trigger. 4 years of me not even coming close to think that "who would"...Its horrible to say this but this is something you would see in a cartoon?

Booooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!!!!! :undecided:

-Alex

Guess these things happen from time to time

Reminds me of the time we decided to brew some beer in our students place. All went well and we left it to settle for a few weeks in cases in the kitchen.

I suppose there was some sugar left at the moment we decided to bottle the beer, and surely one of the bottles exploded after a while, scaring the shit out of a roommate that was sitting in the kitchen with his morning coffee reading the newspaper.

As far as i remember one or two more bottles exploded (out of 2 to 3 cases full), but the rest of them were pretty good beer - probably because we used a bit more sugar than the instructions asked for thinking the yeast would survive the additional alcohol.

Yes sugar is good food to the yeast, yeast are single cell fungi that like sugar, it gives them gas so they fart a lot, this adds fiz to your beverage and is also what makes your bread rise. Sorry if that doesn't sound very appetizing. Some people have even been killed by champagne corks.

Alan

I have had soda cans explode in my car when -20 below zero F and forgot about them being there, coming to the car in the morning to find frozen soda ice all over the inside of the car but never a beer. The only thing I've had explode in front of my face was a car battery I was jumping, the post had broken off inside the battery when I was banging on it with a small hammer to push the corroded clamp on terminal around on the post to make a better contact (obviously a dumb move). As soon as I heard the arcing inside the battery from the broken terminal I turned my head fearing and explosion, which it did, blew the side of the battery out and made a sound as loud as a shot gun. I looked at my hands afterwards to see if I still had fingers, the only that that happened was a piece of plastic from the battery wall had hit me in the chin and cut me a little.

You are really lucky that no acid got you!

Later had lots of holes in my jacket from the acid, nothing like the smell of burned hydrogen! Yep, good thing I turned my head as soon as I heard that arcing inside the battery.

Very true. Battery acid has trashed one of my coats after it got wet.
Years ago setting off my first model rocket a connector came lose right by the engine. I thought they took off slow like a "real" rocket like on TV .... wrong!!!
I bent over the launch pad, wiggled a wire and heard a really loud whoosh by my left ear. I stood up, looked at my friends and they were all looking straight up into the sky. Needless to say I learned that model rockets take off really fast

When I was a kid, I would just buy the solid fuel engines and put a cherry bomb type of fuse in them, light them and wait for the fuse to burn to a very short stub, then throw it up in the air. Dangerous as hell, no way to know which way it would go, but always went up at an angle without coming back to hit me in the head.

You rebel

Yea, being one has cost me many times, but far less so in my older age now.

We did that with bottle rockets many times. Made you high step when they were banging around by your feet.