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%date 2005-06-11 20:25:11
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I lost a bottle of apricot wine today.  I had backsweetened it because it was bland, and put it in the fridge to cold stabilize.  I thought my mom was coming up, so I moved my whole meadery to my closet, just in case she wasn't that supportive, including the bottle of wine we have left, and all of my finished product.  I guess the yeast in the apricot wine hadn't gone dormant, though, because they started eating the honey I sweetened with and making CO<sub>2</sub>.  This morning, I woke up to what sounded like a faucet running on a really fast trickle, but dripping really slowly inside my wall.  I was afraid it was a leak, but when I opened my closet, I saw the apricot wine had pushed open the cap just enough to push out some excess gas and drip a bunch of foam onto my floor in the process.  In all, I was pretty lucky.  Had I been using something other than a swingtop bottle, it probably would've just exploded :o)