Had a good scare! Kombucha exploded!
I know several of you guys make kombucha too and I bet you'll get a good laugh! I made kombuchas Wednesday night and I always use recycled kombucha bottles for my 2nd ferment. I leave them sit for 3 days and then refrigerate.
Well, my family was watching TV and reading when all of a sudden we heard a glass crashing sound. We all figured it was the cat that always breaks things. Nope.
The bottom of a kombucha bottle separated because of the pressure and the top shot off like a missile to the ceiling. 😂 What a mess!! I was going to put them in the fridge tonight. Wish I hadn't waited so long! Glad we weren't asleep when it happened.
I didn't think to take a picture of the bottle with all the mess but here's a picture of the ceiling. I hope I can get it all off. Good thing it didn't make a hole! 😆
Comments
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Ha-ha. I've had this happen with a batch of root beer. Several bottles going off.
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I use swing top beer bottles I buy from a home brewery supplier. The kombucha you can buy in a store (at least where I live) has had the fermentation processed chemically stopped.
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How exciting! Don't you just love those heart-stopping evening adventures?
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It was more surprising than exciting. We all went running to see what happened. In a weird way a welcome distraction from all of the craziness going on in our world.
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@annbeck62 I'll have to look into some of those bottles. I've been using these bottles for a couple years now. This was my first issue and a good, surprising mess!
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@annbeck62 It was found that the kombucha sold up here was not always pasteurized & was still live. I don't know if that’s still the case.
@Torey My grandma's root beer exploded in the dirt cellar, more than once. All her canning was covered with an ugly thick sticky coating after that for quite a long time.
@kbmbillups1 I don't envy the clean up job. Just last week, I had to clean up 1 1/2 gallons of fresh whole milk from the floor. As you know, it rushes as fast as it can to get under everything. I guess at least it wasn't cream... been there too.
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Oh yeah, that can happen! My worst fermenting accident was a batch of beer. I guess I didn't strain out all the hops before putting it in the carboy and putting a fermentation lock on it, because the lock got clogged and I awoke to a beer fountain in the kitchen!
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Good to know it's a shared experience!
@Torey @LaurieLovesLearning I bet the root beer was a sticky mess! At least kombucha doesn't have as much sugar in it to make it super sticky and I guess it helps that we heard it happen.
@LaurieLovesLearning I bet the milk was hard to clean up. My daughter dropped a gallon of milk in our garage when she was younger. My husband was able to get the hose out and rinse it out of the garage. Cleaning it up by hand would be a lot harder!
@judsoncarroll4 Wow! That would be such a mess to clean up and a waste of all that beer. I'm sure you started another batch.
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Sure... it took months to get it all cleaned up under the fridge, stove etc.!
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I guess you woke up to quite a celebration going on. 🥴
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Very uncelebratory!
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My last post had a typo that certainlychanged its meaning. It was supposed to be "woke up"not "were up". The thought being that the party was going on without you.
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@judsoncarroll4 Wow! That was a serious mess and way too much work you probably weren't expecting to do. We had to move the table the kombuchas were on and clean under it and everything that was on top of it but that's nothing compared to what you had to do.
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I was taking a class on making Kombucha and the teacher opened the bottle and that lovely kombucha was all over me. I have also had a bottle of kombucha break from the pressure. It was a heavy-duty bottle too.
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