A funny story to tell -
I got married two weeks ago. I made 375mL bottles of Peach-Ginger mead for wedding favors. I really screwed up the backsweetening when I was making this (my first attempt) and ended up with a product that tasted pretty good, but it was in the upper end of dessert wine sweet. I followed the sulfiting / sorbating instructions, there was no gravity drop over a few weeks after the backsweetening, and I was running way low on time, so I was ok with bottling it.
Opening a few bottles after the wedding, I was suprised that a few of them had bottle carbonated a bit. Not soda-esque, but certainly noticeable. Great, possibly gave out bombs for wedding gifts.
So I had a friend over last night that had gotten a bottle at the wedding, and he says "oh, by the way, your mead blew up." I thought "Oh, hell, there's 49 more bottles blowing up all over the US right now." Not quite - turns out he left it in his car....for a week....in Florida....
I asked him "So, did the bottle shatter, or did the cork blow out?" He said "Just the cork." ...which was heat-sealed in...
Don't heat the mead, man!
I got married two weeks ago. I made 375mL bottles of Peach-Ginger mead for wedding favors. I really screwed up the backsweetening when I was making this (my first attempt) and ended up with a product that tasted pretty good, but it was in the upper end of dessert wine sweet. I followed the sulfiting / sorbating instructions, there was no gravity drop over a few weeks after the backsweetening, and I was running way low on time, so I was ok with bottling it.
Opening a few bottles after the wedding, I was suprised that a few of them had bottle carbonated a bit. Not soda-esque, but certainly noticeable. Great, possibly gave out bombs for wedding gifts.
So I had a friend over last night that had gotten a bottle at the wedding, and he says "oh, by the way, your mead blew up." I thought "Oh, hell, there's 49 more bottles blowing up all over the US right now." Not quite - turns out he left it in his car....for a week....in Florida....
I asked him "So, did the bottle shatter, or did the cork blow out?" He said "Just the cork." ...which was heat-sealed in...
Don't heat the mead, man!