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Putting some cans away last night one of the Guinness 0.0 cans fell out of the cardboard and landed on its shoulder from a height of about 5 inches. It then went off like a pipebomb and in a split second blasted stout all over me, my cupboards, the fridge, up on to the ceiling, the walls - you name it. It was over and done with in the time it took to go bang, and then just sat on the floor bubbling.
It was so quick, I looked at it and jumped to get a towel on it expecting it to fizz and spray, but it was done.
It was at room temp.
Anyone had similar? Fearing the live explosives I have in the cupboard now. Will Guiness pay for redocoration?
Anyone had similar?
Yup. Few years ago got my dad a few cans of stout for his birthday. Mum left them in a bag in the sun outside while havig a BBQ. After a while one can exploded, thankfully contained by the bag. Dad asks mum to take other cans into house and cool them off in the sink. Which she does. Except she took cans OUT of the bag and carried them one in each hand into our kitchen where another exploded and showered everything (EVERTHING) in stout: ceiling, walls, window blind, cupboard, table, chairs, kettle, even the jackets hanging at other side of kitchen. It got ****ing everywhere. Into the cutlery drawer that was open an inch, inside other cuboards which took the full brunt of it, inside the toaster. And covered mum too.
Just glad they didn't explode while she traipsed through our house to reach the kitchen with them.
Clean up took me 4.5hrs and even years later there's still a few marks on the ceiling I missed.
Yeah. I dropped a box of them in the supermarket. They went off like fireworks.
They sound perfect for lobbing at Farage, can you get similar but full of warm piss?
budweiser do alcohol free variant so should be good if they are equally explosive.
Is it a uniquely Guinness thing with the nitrogen?
My BIL once bought me a 'growler' of beer, I put it away meaning to drink it and promptly forgot about its existence for more than a year. Upon rediscovering it, I decided best to tip it away; popping off the swing-top lid resulted in an F1 podium-style scene of rank beer covering me and most of the kitchen.
Not Guiness but had a couple of similar kitchen explosions.
The worst was when we tried making ginger beer. First time fermenting anything and somewhat clueless. Put it all in screw-top plastic bottles on top of the kitchen cupboards to age... A few weeks later there was a mysterious bang from the kitchen... One of the lids had come off and a geyser of sticky ginger beer had coated the ceiling and everything else in the room, not only that but after realising what had happened we had to carefully release the pressure from all the other bottles as well! It was carnage.
Another time I forgot about some eggs boiling on the stove, went in later when the pan had been boiled dry for some time. A slight nudge of the pan was enough to make 2 of the eggs explode with a bang that nearly gave me a heart attack. Came very close to getting a faceful of lava-hot egg yolk too, which wouldn't have been fun. Egg stains were on the ceiling for months.
My dad went through a home brewing spell mid 1970s. Came to an end after a batch exploded all over the kitchen diner.
We lived in RAF married quarters at the time.
I had some homebrewed cider go bang when brought into the kitchen. Probably only one bottle had refermented, but the explosion was enough to take out half the crate with it!
A long time ago I left a can of John Smith's in the back of a mates 106. His commute was on quite a hilly, twisty road. He heard a loud bang from the back of his car. He initially thought he had a blow out until his nostrils were met with the smell of beer 🤦🏻♂️😅
They sound perfect for lobbing at Farage, can you get similar but full of warm piss?
Maybe a job for Jeremy Clarkson's exploding cider?
stout
?? Guinness 0.0… stout? u shore? 🤓
My best kitchen explosion was Heinz ketchup. Shook the bottle (proper old skool glass type, none of this plastic squeezy nonsense), opened the lid, which made a rather unexpected loud bang!
I guess the ketchup had fermented in the bottle. The lid shot off like a bullet, hit the ceiling and dented it. Half the contents of the bottle exploded all the way up the kitshen wall and across the ceiling. Looked like there'd been a massacre.
To this day, I never open any lid pointed at the face.
I had one at work, microwaving a can of tomato soup (well, the contents) like I'd done a thousand times. I was in the corridor when there was an almighty boom, I genuinely thought there'd been another Manchester bombing. I opened the oven door and inside it was literally orange with a few spots of white showing through, there was about a centimetre of soup left in the bowl. My best guess at the time was either it had superheated or there was a trapped air pocket, I'm open to better theories.
My best kitchen explosion was Heinz ketchup. Shook the bottle (proper old skool glass type, none of this plastic squeezy nonsense), opened the lid, which made a rather unexpected loud bang!
I guess the ketchup had fermented in the bottle. The lid shot off like a bullet, hit the ceiling and dented it. Half the contents of the bottle exploded all the way up the kitshen wall and across the ceiling. Looked like there’d been a massacre.
My dad did that when vigorously shaking a bottle of HP. Up the wall, right across the ceiling and down the other wall, the kitchen looked like the toilet from Trainspotting.
We made some elderflower champagne.
Year 1, 6 delicious bottles.
Year 2 embolden by success 12 bottled brewed. One exploded spraying shards of glass with a meter radius over the bathroom. We depressurised the rest, they were just about passable.
Year 3 bought two plastic kegs and kept them in the bath.the bathroom smelled wonderful for ages. The (beer) keg had pressurised and slowly pushed 10 pints out. The dregs tasted amazing. Keg 2- totally full was undrinkable and foul.
And that was the end of my home brewing adventure. Seems I got off lightly 😀
that was the end of my home brewing adventure.
That's probably a thread in its own right.
No one ever talks about the darkside of aeropresses, but its there, lingering just under the surface a formant scald bomb just waiting for the drowsy.
The precise nature of the events are unknown, but when the whole trinity of pressure, angle and temperature is reached the ****ing thing goes off like a rocket. There is no noise it is a silent threat.
Scslded eyelids, coffee on thd ceiling, spray marks up the wall, grinds in the fruitbowl on the other side of the kitchen. Some are still there to this day, a reminder of that fateful day, and a warning to "not lean on the ****ing aeropress because its a bit stiff, you ****ing wally"
My earliest memory is of my dad on stepladder pulling the valve from the pressure cooker out of the kitchen ceiling while stewed rhubarb dripped off every surface.
Some of these sound like they'd be a real challenge to recreate for a movie, but I'd definitely pay to see it.
Funnily enough I’ve just started drinking Guiness 0.0 as its so far the only alcohol free beer I’ve tried that doesn’t taste awful.
Yes, but the gut twisting post pint gaseous stench is horrendous.
Might just be me and my delicate intestinal tract fauna.
A mate at uni got carried away with his successes at home brewing in the first year, so redoubled his efforts in the second. Making 100+ bottles of some mysterious off brand lager as soon as he arrived in digs.
Apparently thumping the final crate of over fermented bottles on the top of a stack of other crates causes a chain reaction.
Leaving him with the dozen or so bottles that *hadn't* fully fermented (tasted revolting), 90 odd half full bottles of halfway decent beer and the rest of the contents of those 90 bottles sprayed thinly over the insides of his landlords garage, half a dozen bikes, him, the washing machine and a load of suitcases.
I don't know if he ever cleaned it up TBH.
My dad had a bottle of red explode in the garage once, the mark was still there when we moved out ~20 years later.
And finally, a colleague was going to a party after his shift at the restaurant we worked at, asked if he could put his beers in the freezer, not realising how quickly they would freeze. He spent a couple of hours cleaning the frozen beer off the inside of the freezer before he went to the party.
Somebody mentioned aeropress. Does anybody else fear when pushing down that the mug underneath will shatter due to an unknown hairline crack? It plays on my mind. Often I brew it in the sink for this reason!
Once borrowed my mum's car for a swift trip to the local off-licence for beers ahead of an impending football game. After an enthusiastic drive home I pulled up sharply outside her house. I must have braked hard enough for the collection of single cans to fly off the rear seats and for a couple to impale themselves on the driver's seat floor runners. I don't think we ever quite eradicated the smell of stale beer until the car went to the great car park in the sky.
Somebody mentioned aeropress. Does anybody else fear when pushing down that the mug underneath will shatter due to an unknown hairline crack? It plays on my mind. Often I brew it in the sink for this reason!
Yep. Done it. The funnel didn't help. It wasn't spectacular like "the incident" though.
A former colleague dropped a can of expanding foam with similar results, and wrote off his conservatory.
Yes! Never had issues plunging, but one time at work I was brewing inverted and someone knocked it over whilst I was waiting. I can't comprehend how far the liquid and grounds went. It was spectacular. Not least because it was cubby hole at the side of an open plan office rather than a proper kitchen!
Done that too...
On reflection maybe a cafetiere would be a better choice*
I too wonder just HOW it goes so far.
Like how does it shoot off the edge of the worktop and then managed to spray along the top of the dishwasher underneath.
*I have smashed one of those before too, ****ted the tap witha full one, fortunately that just went straight into the sink.
Hiya,
Not can of Stout, can of Expanding Foam! Luckily in my workshop. Suffice to say it was an absolute disaster. The foam went everywhere. I was wearing cycle clothes, that had to be junked. luckily I was wearing winter over jacket that had seen better days, my new softshell was protected and the long johns weren't that expensive. Six months later we are still finding bits of foam attached to stuff. Luckily my sons industrial Sewing machine was under a cover and so too most of the expensive stuff. Funniest part was cycling the next day in a local cafe, someone remarked why I had expanding foam on my crash helmet...
Lesson learned, place expanding foam on bottom shelves.
BR
Jerry
Once watched a small boy, luckily from just outside blast range, drop a 1.5L plastic bottle of fizzy drink on the supermarket floor, it exploded on impact with a very loud bang and in a fraction of a second the boy was drenched in orange liquid, it looked amazing.
Re the Aeropress, possibly this is what happened to the poster above - I didn't 'screw' the plastic end cap that holds the filter on properly on my Go. Got to about halfway through the plunge and it fired off into half a cup of scalding coffee. Some of my white kitchen walls needed to be repainted. My white linen shirt was a write off.
I too bear Aeropress explosion scars (metaphorical if not literal).
My contribution - not as good as some, but it only happened a few weeks ago - was dropping and smashing a full glass jar of cinnamon. It's coated my entire kitchen-diner with a micron-thick layer of brown dust. On the plus side, my house smells amazing.
Will just leave this here.
https://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/funny-expanding-foam-story-t2879.html/blockquote >
Yeah the lesson to be learnt from this, is treat expanding foam with respect.Onto the URL above, I worked for the army for a few years. One lad had a 2CV and left his front corner panel window open. His colleagues of sound mind, and virtue, did the honest and decent thing to do, filled the void with packing expanding foam, in the usual packing plastic bag, as not to cause actual damage. Any-hows the scream of anger could be heard across the tank compound, lol.
JeZ
This is a new thing since they started making the can walls so thin that they are insufficient to survive a drop onto a hard surface. I guess saving 0.000001p on a can is still profitable when you're making millions of them. I've had 2 cans of beer explode after dropping in the last few years and a can of fizzy pop go off when I dropped a piece of cutlery on it while laying the table! I'm more careful these days with cans than I am with glass bottle. The glass is more likely to survive falling out the fridge door!
Somebody mentioned aeropress. Does anybody else fear when pushing down that the mug underneath will shatter due to an unknown hairline crack? It plays on my mind. Often I brew it in the sink for this reason!
Usually when half the office is watching me do this thinking "pretentious coffee ****er".
I viewed this thread with a bit of scepticism until.. I’ve just dropped a can of Guinness Zero bringing it in from the garage. There was no fizz just an immediate emptying of the contents in a ten foot radius. I’ll need another bath now and some more clean jamas!
Anyone had similar?
my son did a poo like that once. His call of , “it came out before I sat down,” did not prepare me for just how brown the bathroom had become.
I phoned diageo up about it but they just brushed it off as "any drop no matter how small could cause it"
Kid gloves when handling folks!
A colleague of mine was working in a police station in N Wales. He had brought a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie in a tin for his lunch.
He put the oven on, and once at the correct temp he put the can in the oven. He neglected to open the can and remove the lid.
About 30 mins later there was an enormous bang and people rushed to the kitchen area. The oven door had been blown off the cooker by the force of the steel can exploding and the canteen area was covered in superheated steak and kidney.
How we laughed when he had to explain what he had done...
I once dropped a jar of Ragu in the supermarket. Kapow!
These Guinness can things - can they be guaranteed to go off if dropped ?
Would be a spectacular way of ending the neighbour's late-night BBQ. Just launch one over the fence...
Once watched a small boy, luckily from just outside blast range, drop a 1.5L plastic bottle of fizzy drink on the supermarket floor, it exploded on impact with a very loud bang and in a fraction of a second the boy was drenched in orange liquid, it looked amazing.
Remember when plastic bottles instead of glass first became a big thing? There was a TV ad on the time which showed a woman accidentally dropping a big bottle whereupon it bounced down the steps. A little time later I was helping my grandparents bring the shopping in from the car, my gran shouts "be careful with that bottle!" I replied "it's OK, watch!" and let go of it, with entirely predictable results and an impromptu lesson in not believing everything you see in TV ads.
I once dropped a jar of Ragu in the supermarket. Kapow!
Batman came up to me the other day. He hit me over the head with a vase and went "T'PAU!" I picked myself up off the floor and asked "Don't you mean KAPOW?" He said "No, I've got china in my hand."
(With apologies to Tim Vine for nicking his joke.)