Here we go again.

Well the title says it all when it comes to making ginger beer. Nearly blew the doors off the pantry just before Christmas. We heard a terrible muffled explosion from the depths and one of the pantry doors flew open.

Jordan flung the other door open to see what the heck had happened in there. OH WOW! What a mess! Ginger beer over everything and dripping all over the floor! Blew the side clean out of the bottle as you can see from the photo. (Taken outside after the "incident")

It took ages to clean up but I have to say it took so much longer than it should have because none of us could stop laughing! I had one more bottle in the fridge which I VERY carefully took outside, I expected it to go berserk at any minute. I made it outside safely but when I loosened the lid it went up like Mt. Vesuvius! 

The commentary when we were cleaning up kept us in fits; Jordan reckons Monsanto had planted a bomb because I'm always bagging them out. (Google them if you don't know about these very nasty people) and Kim says I'm hopeless at making ginger beer but I'm brilliant at making explosives. lol. Needless to say I'm banned from fermenting anything again.

I must say everyone has been telling me their brewing stories and I'm convinced there's a book in this. From nearly killing the cat with a cork from exploding elderflower wine, to a lass' dad thinking he was under fire again in the war when her wine blew up in the spare wardrobe at 3am; we've been kept in stitches.  

..............................I'm pretty sure Mark isn't going to let me get that still that I wanted.