Ever Spill A Glass Of Red Wine?

It makes a huge mess and can stain anything. Right?

Well, how about having 7 gallons of red wine blow up in your closet?

Yep.

It happened to me last night. You see, I make wine. I have quite a lot ready to bottle at the end of the month. And it was, well, hot yesterday. Now the wife and I don't run air conditioning much, so it got a bit toasty in the house yesterday.

So let's review the bidding.

A full 7 gallon stoppered glass carboy + higher than normal temperatures = ? As they say in the old song, "somethin's gotta give".

The glass blew last night and there was .... well .... 7 gallons of wine released from it's bondage. And, unfortunately, not released into a glass.

The clean-up continues.