Theola, your Blackberry cordial explosion story brought reminders of our own Ed's Red (#3 son's homebrew). No one was home when a few bottles exploded in the basement. I found out when I went down to do some laundry. Everything smelled of beer! Since it was his mess, I let him clean it up. Eventually he bought his own place and moved out, beer and all. He told everyone the main reason he bought his own place was that his mother wouldn't let him fill the refrigerator with homebrew. Can you imagine? I told him I needed space for food. His response: "Beer is the PERFECT food." He's had at least one minor explosion at his home. BTW, his second reason for moving out was that we bought a minivan, and he thought we bought it to help him move. Lois

Sounds like a little bit of heritage pops out in all of us... I was making some wine and knew I was going to be gone for a week and my Dad was coming up to the house to check everything while I was gone... so I put my two crocks in the sink and covered them....mistake!!! I guess my peach wine blew all over my white kitchen with its black floor... my Dad said that he scrubbed and scrubbed, ceiling to floor cleaning up my ungodly wine mess... he never let me live that one down... g