Skuds of Suds

I'm writing this story as a word of warning and because it's a crazy story. So in my last post, I wrote that my dad drove all the way from IL with a gigantic trailer and his car packed with my stuff for the apt move in (he is awesome by the way, helping me move in and basically putting my apartment together while I started my new job, I can't thank him enough) . He should also get a Purple Heart after what happened (which I will tell you now haha).

My dad had packed up some of my homebrew and fancy bottles from my collection so I would have some beer to drink at my apt. We learned a valuable lesson on transporting beer, especially homebrew long distances in a car. While he was driving, the boxes of beer were behind him and all of a sudden, POW!!!! Bottles just started exploding!!! The shaking from the car plus the heat plus what happens when you shake carbonated beverages equals brown glass shrapnel while driving 65mph on a busy highway!! I guess my dad could have been a fighter pilot in a past life because he said he never slowed the car or swerved haha.

When he finally pulled up to the apt. complex, we quickly took out the boxes and put them under the U-Haul trailer so that they had a ceiling to smash into instead of in the air and in our faces. The whole rest of the move in you would hear random explosions and glass shattering. It was crazy!!

Once the trailer was unloaded we had to return it but that meant we had to move the mini mortars! We slowly pulled the boxes out and it was like a bomb squad trying to defuse a bomb. Sometimes we chose the wrong wire and a bottle neck would explode shooting 20 ft. in the air over our heads!!! Insane. We finally got the bottles in the dumpster and let me tell you it really sounds like gunfire inside a metal box haha.

Let this be a warning to those looking to transport beer for long distances, maybe put them in a jello like substance or keep them on a cooler even though you aren't gonna drink them right away. Either way, pray you have the nerves of Larry Burnside if one should go off in transit. I know I'd be in the side of a wall if that happened and I was driving haha.

I am now accepting beer packages to make up for the list soldiers.