Bottle bombs: why you don't want one

[calumscott]

Also known as, "Waitrose: your bags are sh*te!"

Four bottles of Guinness became three as one made its way out of the bag and onto my tiled kitchen floor.

It went off big time.

I now have a 1/2 inch laceration up my top lip from the shrapnel.

While I think that homebrew bottle bombs are almost entirely down to flawed or damaged bottles rather than over priming, it serves as a little reminder to get your bottles from a trusted source, look after them well and make sure your ferment is properly finished before you bottle.

I feel a bit lucky, a couple of inches and that was my left eye...

 

[dennisking]

Take photos and complain. You've got nothing to lose.

 

[Gassman]

You were lucky and im sorry to hear what happened but what is it with this country and claiming ****

I know, next time I follow through I will blame the food company and make a claim

Jeez

 

[kentmark]

I'd definatly put a complaint in! Otherwise you're saying that it's ok for them to offer crap service/products (ie:their bags) whilst you pay for it. If these big companies aren't held to account they will continue to cut corners.

 

[calumscott]

Sorry guys but it was me that forgot my reusable shopping bags, it was me that went four Guinness bottles up in a single bag. Just karma for f***ing up the planet a little more.

The point was about being careful with bottles not trying to get stuff just because sh*t happened.

I won't be complaining, I'll be getting better at remembering my proper bags in future.

 

[OnlyFerment]

Sorry guys but it was me that forgot my reusable shopping bags, it was me that went four Guinness bottles up in a single bag. Just karma for f***ing up the planet a little more.

The point was about being careful with bottles not trying to get stuff just because sh*t happened.

I won't be complaining, I'll be getting better at remembering my proper bags in future.

Realistically though a carrier bag should be good for at least 4 bottles - it is meant to be filled with a mixture of foods, not just to force you into buying reusable bags.

 

[supersteve]

You were lucky and im sorry to hear what happened but what is it with this country and claiming ****

I know, next time I follow through I will blame the food company and make a claim

Jeez

:lol: I dropped a bottle and want money!

But seriously.. You shouldn't claim for silly things like this unless it was a manufacturing fault with a product.
Sorry to hear that this happened though, can't be nice.

 

[LeithR]

Sorry to hear, that must have been scarey. Next time double bag!!

 

[ericmark]

At 5p per bag you want double bag? I will admit now we are charged for all carrier bags to build in planned obsolescent as well it to me wrong. I used the bags for tidy up in garage came back 6 months later and they had bio-degraded leaving all stuff unsorted again and snow flakes every where. When they were free OK but now they cost 5p so now if I forget bags always buy an expensive one then they don't biodegrade.

It is possible you were given an old bag! Just wish the bags used by dog walkers were biodegradable at least then there would be a limit to how long dog muck hangs on the trees.

As to floor first house was cork but drop something and cork easy damaged but most things survived this how tiles drop something still damages tiles and things smash some day I will rip them all up and replace with wood of some type. Learning curve is great but just as we learn we die.

Claim maybe going a bit far but complain yes as they could have some old stock of bags and it could happen to others. With bags costing 5p now expect they stay in stock longer.

 

[morepunk]

Ouch. I had a bottle bomb experience a few years ago whilst in Majorca (thankfully it didn't injure my face though).

My Dad knocked a bottle of San Miguel onto the floor. About a second later, the bottle exploded and left me needing 7 stitches in my leg. I wouldn't have minded so much, but it was the first day of my holiday and I wasn't allowed near the water for the rest of the trip! I blamed my Dad's taste in beer that time.

Hope your injury heals soon.

 

[Aleman]

With bags costing 5p now expect they stay in stock longer.

Not in England . . . . . Yet!

 

[Jeltz]

Bloody biodegradable carrier bags that seem to biodegrade as soon as you leave the shop!

As you say its lucky that the it wasn't worse, even without complaining I would mention it to them though as it could have been far more serious and they can't remedy things if they don't know.

 

[beerhunter]

I once dropped a bottle of beer on the kitchen floor, after about 5 minutes my tongue was covered in cuts, but the floor was nice and clean.

 

[NickW]

I once dropped a bottle of beer on the kitchen floor, after about 5 minutes my tongue was covered in cuts, but the floor was nice and clean.

:lol:

 

[Pakman]

Before I was into homebrew I purchased a load of Courage Best bottles from ALDI. One of them exploded in my beer storage cupboard making a hell of a mess. I wrote to both ALDI and Wells & Youngs (makers of Courage). ALDI immediately sent me a £5 voucher. Wells and Youngs sent a special container for the bottle to be returned, sent it to their bottle supplier who declared it to have a flaw in the glass. W&Y then sent me £30 worth of vouchers. £35 in total for 10 minutes cleaning out a cupboard - result! :thumb:
Graham