Quote Originally Posted by cjhutch
I tried to brew my own and I got all the way to the bottling stage. I added a mix of sugar to the second pail in order to get the second fermentation and placed it all in bottles. I woke up a day later and every single bottle exploded in my tub. I had filled 36 bottles and had to clean glass out of my tub for like 2 hours. Ever since then I just didn't try again because I wasted so much money on that first batch.
you may have added too much sugar , my brother inlaw just made his first batch ever , and it turned out pretty good