I tried to make a home brew in about 1994, which ended in disaster. Being a bit thick, I decided to double the amount of sugar that needed to be added, hoping that it would make it more alcoholic. I had about 30 bottles lined up around the wall in the upstairs part of the flat, and we came home one day to find one of the bottles had exploded and there was some fairly big shards of glass embedded in the wall. For the safety of the rest of the flat, I had to put on every item of clothing I had, carry each bottle individually downstairs to the back garden (with all the care of someone from The Hurt Locker), and then open them. Each bottle gave me the appearance of someone who had just won a Formula 1 event. Nerve-wracking stuff.
Cue some little cunt adding the next post of "you were flatting in 1994? I was only 1 year old then. Lolz".
lol good story. It's actually a not uncommon occurrence and as you've pointed out can be dangerous. Force-feeding the yeast = extreme reactions.
Chilli would be interested in what you do/got