exploding/squealing ginger-beer

Our most exciting news in recent times relates my first batch of ginger-beer for the summer season.

Continuing the great family tradition of combat cooking, the ginger-beer is the exploding/squealing variety... Luckily I learned from the stories of previous disasters told to me as a child and when we bought bottles we bought the self-regulating kind (rubber stopper, flip-top).

Everything seemed fine til we came to open bottle number 1.
It shot the lid across the room and proceeded to froth all over the table and carpet.
Ben took an after shot, but blogger will only let you see it sideways...



We opened the next bottle in the shower...

The next evening we found that one of the bottles had vented lovely sticky ginger-beer all over the shelf it was on. On the up side it didn't froth quite so much.

Later, while cooking dinner, we heard a loud sound like a fire alarm... The noise scared the hell out of me! We located it to the box of ginger-beer bottles. A bottle was venting and shooting liquid at high pressure!

On the up side, it did mean that when we heard the same noise at 1 am we knew that the house WASN'T on fire it was just the ginger-beer coating everything in sticky!
We jumped up and dragged the box into the bathroom and put a towel on top of it (we had already put a towel underneath).

So now we're trying to drink a dozen bottles of ginger-beer as fast as we can before more explode and/or annoy the neighbors with their siren like whistling!

(I did also go to VSS in Florida recently, if/when I get pictures I will post them.)