Saturday, May 26, 2007

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.)

18 Comments:

At May 26, 2007 8:57 PM, Blogger Liz Argall said...

aaaaah, that makes me truly miss you. The glorious elixir that is Robbins ginger beer, explosions and all and the highlight of any sun festival :)

Liz

 
At May 28, 2007 6:33 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

My teetotal parents used to make GB, and sip it in all innocence, 'tho JaM discovered early in our marriage that if you made it in PET bottles the presure was released which, as any good chemist knows allowed the reaction to proceed for longer producing more - you got it - alcohol. A glass safter work and we had to lie on the floor for 30 mins before we could cook tea! As for glass bottles- one friend was so scared by exploding bottes that they took the lot and dropped the box off Ryde Bridge. Our own best batch sent shards of glass about 10m across the house and they still had enough energy to embed themselves in a wooden door.. . Fortunately we were at work at the time it happened.
Jan

 
At May 29, 2007 10:42 AM, Blogger Jamie said...

That's hilarious - would you be able to post up instructions on how to make ginger beer, it sounds like fun.

 
At May 29, 2007 10:59 AM, Blogger Jamie said...

I've just tried to find a solution to your sideways photo, if you edit the html and change the source of the photo to: "http://i1.bebo.com/029b/3/large/2007/05/29/14/3045365870a4522393905b454925199l.jpg" this should fix it (hopefully).

 
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