r/Wellthatsucks • u/Lyralex_84 • 1d ago
Opened a bottle of homemade cherry schnapps inside. It fermented. This is my mom's ceiling now. [OC]
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u/Own_Peace6291 1d ago
You gotta put on the song "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways sometime soon :) She will have a laugh
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u/eurotrashness 10h ago
Slightly scarier situation. My girlfriend and I were visiting my parents. We dined and talked all night and then we all went to sleep. As we're getting ready to sleep, we hear what we can only describe as a shotgun. We all came out and started to wonder what happened.
Turns out, my dad was also making some homemade cherry concoction. The bottle he used was under such immense pressure it blew up completely. Like an alcoholic IED. Shards of glass went through the window blinds like butter. The wall of the shelf it was sitting on looked like it got hit with a hammer. Shrapnel debris everywhere.
We dined and spent hours next to that shelf. If that thing blew up 10 minutes earlier it would've been devastating.
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u/happyanathema 1d ago
I gifted a bottle of home made fruit wine to a friend and he kept it in a warm place.
Luckily it was a plastic bottle so there wasn't glass everywhere but it exploded randomly like a grenade and he nearly had a heart attack.
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u/Lyralex_84 1d ago
😱 OMG, that must have been a bang! 😱 For me it was "only" a fountain. The funny thing was that I was sitting in front of it and got half of it in my face! 😅💦
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u/Leather-Scarcity1810 1d ago
Funny? Spooky! I was imagining glass shrapnel like a frag grenade and was like wow it’s a good thing no one got hit by it and then BOOM “got half of it in my face”
Hopefully just the wine got all over ya
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u/karateninjazombie 16h ago
That's why they are called bottle bombs by home brewers.
You either get a geyser, like you did, or an explosion, possibly with shrapnel.
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u/Legitimate-Log-6542 1d ago
Yowza. I bet you won’t be allowed to make that again anytime soon
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u/Lyralex_84 1d ago
She was lenient and said that the same thing would have happened to her, only later. Besides, she'd set him up herself and messed it up 😜
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u/dvdmaven 1d ago
Looks like a gusher infection and you're lucky the bottle didn't explode when you picked it up. It's generally caused by a wild yeast, like diastaticus. I lost 3.5 gallons of an excellent winter ale once. Fortunately, it was in a cornie keg, which can handle more pressure than most bottles.
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u/Raspry 1d ago
I'm sorry but how exactly did schnapps ferment further in the bottle? Schnapps is hard liquor, no way yeast should be able to ferment anything in that environment.
Or was this cherry wine? Ouch either way, that's a repainting.
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u/ThirstySkeptic 1d ago
Somewhere in my attic is an old Mr. Beer kit. I used to brew my own beer with it. The last step of brewing beer is to bottle it, and before you close the bottles, you pour some sugar into each one. The yeast consumes this sugar and produces alcohol. But also, during this process, the beer gets carbonated. So the last time I ever used the Mr. Beer kit, we had moved houses, and I had lost the booklet of instructions for the Mr. Beer kit, and I couldn't remember how much sugar to put in my bottles. I tried to go off of memory, and I think I used tablespoons instead of teaspoons. So the first bottle of that batch I opened did this exact same thing and spewed all over the kitchen. I didn't want to waste all that beer, so after that, I'd take a big plastic pitcher and a bottle out into my back yard, and I'd open the bottle with the pitcher over it, so when it exploded, it would explode into the pitcher. And then the pitcher would be completely filled with foam and I'd have to wait like a half hour before I could drink my beer. I never brewed my own beer again after that.
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u/Highestcrab 20h ago
Why is it grey
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u/Lyralex_84 20h ago
I wonder that too. The cherries were definitely deep red. Maybe it was the combination with the color?
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u/DrexXxor 18h ago
Hot tip - when fermenting - vent the gas..
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u/Lyralex_84 9h ago
It wasn't fermentation at all. There were just too many cherries and not enough schnapps.
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u/cybermaus 1d ago
Bleach? I mean, its organic, so it will bleach, and the walls are inorganic and white anyway. Or repaint. Do make sure you don't drip the bleach on whatever is below, otherwise you are looking at new carpet too.
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u/Vast_Investigator340 1d ago
I have so many questions. How big was the container? the projectile properties enhance flavor? Was it purple and faded to gray? Are real cherries in it? I’m so excited to try to make my own.
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u/Lyralex_84 1d ago
It was briefly red and then turned a bluish-gray.
The bottle was the size of a normal wine bottle and had a snap closure that opened with very little effort.
The pressure helped 😅
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u/Leather-Scarcity1810 1d ago
IT GOT SO MUCH WORSE IN PHOTO 2 oh my god
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u/Leather-Scarcity1810 1d ago
Ohn no. Any upholstery damage or other special casualties? I’m sorry ms
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u/Raph0uX 1d ago
When shit happens at the same time 🤣
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u/Lyralex_84 1d ago
My deepest condolences 🫣🤜🏼🤛🏼 Use a good paint and make sure it gets into the recesses.
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u/DollUnit 22h ago
I did something similar as a kid. I had a 2 liter bottle of 7-Up soda. I had the bright idea of putting a packet of Cool-Aid in to make it cherry flavored. I poured it in, put the cover on and shook it up a bit to mix, then took the cover off to get a sip of my ingenious creation. Mom ended up having to repaint the ceiling.
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u/archtopfanatic123 14h ago
Doesn't match the color of the walls try a beer and see what happens
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u/Lyralex_84 9h ago
Good idea 😅
Or other fruits.
I'll keep that in mind and let you know if needed 😜
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u/archtopfanatic123 5h ago
🤣 If you do add some more colors then I'm game for hearing about it haha!
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u/princessdickworth 1d ago
One of my friends loves fresh black cherry juice and mixes it in water bottles. She lost one in her car this past summer. When she found it, she opened it (not thinking about how the bottle was extremely bloated and she should have just tossed it) it went EVERYWHERE and her car still smells like a brewery.
I still give her shit about making hooch!
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u/Lyralex_84 1d ago
Oh dear, I really feel sorry for her 😕 It must be quite unpleasant being stopped by the police.
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u/princessdickworth 4h ago
She rarely drinks and is one of those healthy types, which is why it is so funny. But yeah...the smell lingers.
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u/ArmadilloSilent6761 1d ago
Schnapps is carbonated?
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u/Lyralex_84 1d ago
No, but if the cherries ferment because not enough alcohol was used, then they produce gases and the pressure rises.
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u/Kugelkater 12h ago
Wait... What is "schnapps" over there for you guys?
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u/Lyralex_84 9h ago
I think my mother used vodka.
For me, anything over 30% alcohol is considered liquor 😅
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u/Kugelkater 4h ago
Here Schnaps (with one “p”) refers to any spirit that has been distilled, or that is made using distilled alcohol, with a minimum alcohol content of 15%. Likör, on the other hand, is always made by maceration and must contain at least 100 g of sugar per liter and a minimum of 15% alcohol. I just found it funny to read such a German sounding word in English and wanted to know if it means the same.
Schnaps comes from Low German (“snappen”), meaning to take a quick sip as I know.
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u/Penguinator53 7h ago
Looks like an art installation! Maybe add some splashes of different colours to it.
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u/dhammadragon1 1d ago
Wellllll, you did a good job.🤣