One of our first brewing attempts was a hard cider for the wife. I took some to my dad to show off what we made. He put one in the fridge to cool down and it ended up exploding, shattering the bottle and the glass bottom shelf, coating their brand new fridge in cider. I don't know if we bottled it before fermentation was done, or we had an infection. It was kinda fun to dump the other bottles out. I would pop the cap off real quick and the cider would just shoot out of the top basically emptying the whole bottle without having to turn it upside down.
One of our first brewing attempts was a hard cider for the wife. I took some to my dad to show off what we made. He put one in the fridge to cool down and it ended up exploding, shattering the bottle and the glass bottom shelf, coating their brand new fridge in cider. I don't know if we bottled it before fermentation was done, or we had an infection. It was kinda fun to dump the other bottles out. I would pop the cap off real quick and the cider would just shoot out of the top basically emptying the whole bottle without having to turn it upside down.
Once upon a time I was making sugar mash for a cheap drink. Usually I'd let it sit outside in the cold for a few weeks after it finished gassing off, letting the yeast gunk settle. This particular time I needed the space for another project, so I skipped right to bottling. I filled a few dozen 1L Gatorade bottles with the mash for want of a better kind of container.
I had never worked with a carbonated brew before, and I made the mistake of bottling cold, and storing at room temperature. Came back a day later to open one, and it exploded when I picked it up, not even getting around to removing the cap. Soaked me, and everything within 10 feet in cheap sugar malt liquor.
So there I was, hand stinging, holding the shredded remains of a plastic bottle, staring at several dozen 1L stink bombs that I couldn't pick up without detonating. I spent the next 8 hours of my life finding the least messy way to detonate a pressurized Gatorade bottle (slide them off the table into a 55 gallon trash bag with holes in the bottom, and a bucket underneath).
Moral of the story: bottle at storage temps, don't bottle early, and bottle in glass.