Glass won't necessarily save you there. I once tried to make a lager that hadn't quite finished when I decided to bottle. I didn't discover that I had made potential grenades until I decided to give some to co-workers and they exploded in my truck while we were working. Luckily, only the ones I brought exploded, but the rest became the saddest volcano ever when you opened them.
Glass won't necessarily save you there. I once tried to make a lager that hadn't quite finished when I decided to bottle. I didn't discover that I had made potential grenades until I decided to give some to co-workers and they exploded in my truck while we were working. Luckily, only the ones I brought exploded, but the rest became the saddest volcano ever when you opened them.
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.