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had my first bottle explode. have you?
(lemm.ee)
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The ginger bug is probably what affected it here, my wonderful neighbour has given me a few homemade bottles of ginger beer before, and one's exploded in the fridge, the other had enough pressure build to blow the lid off when opening from a remaining 2 inches of dregs.
Apparently, there's just something about ginger fermentation that really builds pressure