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Last October I made up a 80pints or so of cider from the trees in my garden. Pure liquid sunshine. Some of the juice was kept and one bottle ended up pushed to the back of the fridge, forgotten and forlorn.
A loud bang in the middle of the night, the fridge door blown open, cider all over the fridge, kitchen floor, shelf blown out, shelf support torn from fridge wall and best of all, the bottle embedded in the 'roof' of the fridge. Crikey!
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That last picture's brilliant. Today we test the intercontinental ballistic cider! All hail the glorious leader!
😯 😯
Always knew cider was dangerous stuff.
I'd like to see the insurance form for that claim 😆
Crickey!! 😯
No insurance claim going in- it's just a scratch, it'll polish out etc.
Insurance excess is less than £20 below the price of a new fridge. Duct tape ahoy.
To be fair if you put sweet, innocent apple juice in a Grolsch bottle - designed for [s]cheap[/s], chemical muck, you can't expect that it won't try to escape.
And it is impressive that it got higher than little Kim's ballistic missile.
Awesome, cider weapons.
Haha. Maybe let it brew a bit more before bottling next time!
A dangerous incidery device lurking in the fridge..
Applecalypse now
Gotta go! Special (brew) Branch are hammering down my door....
We made some "Slider" basically the sloes that have been in gin for 3 months, then added with a little sugar in a demi-john of cloudy scrumpy, one of those went, thankfully it was in my garage though, thought a tube had blown in wheel and clearly heard indoors!
My great uncle used to brew his own applejack.
He'd bury the clay demijohns in the garden, but being a forgetful old soul, often fail to recall where he'd buried them. Every so often there'd be a very large "bang" followed by a hail of soil and clay shards, a pause, and then a quite "oh, so that's where I put it..." 😯
Applecalypse now
Hats off to Northwind!
A ticking time-pomme
😯 that last picture is brilliant
IED - Improvised Explosive Drink