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Posted: Wednesday Sep 07, 2005 6:03 pm
by flosso
For those that were enquiring before about a ginger beer without artificial sweetener involved - it appears that Grumpy's do one - the link for it is here:
http://www.grumpys.com.au/phpshop/?page ... c75f6afeb&
Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2005 11:36 am
by Paul Bennett
When you make a DIY ginger beer for the very first time, bottle it in soft-drink bottles and don't point them at your eyes. Let them mature outside somewhere, or in a box. I bottled my first ginger beer (from a recipe from the ABC website) and four bottles exploded in my car, glass shards and splinters sticking into the headlining and door panels. By a lucky chance, I was inside a shop at the time. Had I been on the highway, there would have been a really nasty accident. Exploding glass bottles are really, really dangerous, and can never be a joke.
It wasn't just the vibrations of the car, either. I had a 1.2-litre PET bottle blow up in the bathroom, and it went straight up like a rocket and bored a perfect hole in the Gyprock ceiling, then span around in circles before falling.
Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2005 1:11 pm
by gregb
Exploding glass bottles are really, really dangerous, and can never be a joke.
...actually they can be piss funny when it happens to someone else.
Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2005 2:29 pm
by Daron
The PET bottle going nuts in the bathroom, I'm sorry, does sound very funny. I know I'd be going apeshit if it happened to me, but it didn't and I apologise for pissing myself...
Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2005 3:32 pm
by gregb
Yeah, agree, just how funny something is is proportional to how much pain it doesn't cause you.
Posted: Friday Sep 09, 2005 9:58 am
by Dogger Dan
Nice,
I like it,
Stirs a memory........I often wonder how that guy made out who primed his bottles with 1.2 kilos of dex. Said he forgot to add the kilo at the begining and figured it would be OK to add before bottling. Asked me to check his brew. Said one or two had lifted off. Was the last day at that job for me, graduated from uni the next week. Think I did tell him to open the bottles.......Think I did......pretty sure........if I didn't I sure meant to......
Dogger
Posted: Friday Sep 09, 2005 12:13 pm
by gregb
He must've got away with no injuries, we'd have heard about him if he'd turned up in the Darwin Awards.
Cheers,
Greg
Posted: Friday Sep 09, 2005 12:25 pm
by Dogger Dan
Thanks Greg
I am sure you are right,
Thought I saw him on Funniest Videos though being chased by an angry brown bottle right out of the house, must have been a dream....
Sure, I told him
Dogger