As craft brewers have pushed beers to be more experimental they ve also introduced more elements to consider and control.
Craft beer cans exploding.
The unfortunate trend of exploding cans in craft beer.
Onto a concrete step about two weeks ago.
Donspublic poo bah 1 857 aug 4 2014 texas.
It s lit the unfortunate trend of exploding cans in craft beer.
This incident comes on the heels of several other beer product related injuries including recent reports of craft beer cans exploding.
August 23 2018.
Exploding cans are likely due to refermentation after packaging which creates an initial increase in carbonation made worse with elevated temperatures.
Discussion in beer news releases started by drtth aug 23 2018.
Think the process to go from grain to glass with an ingredient laden pastry stout or lacto fruit milkshake ipa is strenuous.
Cans are rated to withstand common beer carbonation volumes at elevated temperatures.
Although these may seem like straightforward product liability cases the complexity of the beer fermentation process and the storage precautions consumers are expected to take beg the question of who is liable for these safety hazards.
Unfiltered beers tend to have more residual yeast cells.
Obviously exploding cans of fruit beer isn t the goal so let s learn more about these beers and what s happening inside the can.
In my case the exploding can was an accident.
One consequence is creating exploding cans of fruit beer.
In general yeast will.
I dropped a warm 16 oz can of patchwork kilt by down the road beer co.
The most important step to keeping cans intact and on the shelf is for brewers to prevent refermentation.
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Who s really at fault when beer cans start exploding.
Dry hopping late in the process at low temperatures allows those enzymes to survive.
At least that s the advice from one attorney regarding a controversial new trend in beer.
Pretty certain we didn t get the full story here not that it would have been known by our friend in tx.
In eras past this.
Discussion in beer news releases started by drtth aug 23 2018.
Simply insisting that consumers refrigerate their product is not adequate prevention because the average consumer doesn t understand explosion risk.
It flew right up the front of me bounced off.
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Part of the reason why craft brewers encounter exploding cans more frequently than their macro counterparts is simply the nature of their product.
And most importantly let s see if this risk is something you should worry about and how we can prevent it because these beers are too good to let them go to waste.
For some breweries adding a phone call to their lawyer may be a new necessary step too.
And while leaving beers unpasteurized preserves much of their complexity it also limits their shelf life.
You heard that right some beers are actually exploding causing a mess and the loss of a great beer.
