Post date: Apr 14, 2009 1:06:51 AM
From: Rob Dalley
Subject: Tips
Here are a couple of tips you may want to add to your webpage that I discovered last night.
1. When capping bottles be sure not do do so while barefoot. Exploding bottles will slice open your feet.
2. If capping bottles next to bottles to be capped, place something on the top of them so exploding glass does not enter the waiting bottles. Shrapnel from 3 exploded bottles on the bench next to bottles waiting to be capped reduced my yield from 5 dozen to 26 bottles as a precaution not to drink glass.
3. Safety goggles may be recommended as well during the capping process as exploded bottle glass was removed from my beard.
Needless to say capping night was fun. I'm off to dominion in a few to get another brew.
Rob
From: Stephen Stone
Subject: Re: Tips
I had the same thing happen to me with the brown twist-off bottles, as for the imports no problems yet. Another bit of advice I will add, make sure there is no clean-neatly folded clothes around when bottling, having to wash laundry again after cleaning up the brew and glass sucks, especially when your bleeding all over it.