what has more CO2 in it my home brew or coke? i had a bottle of home brewed pale ale fall out of the fridge and it managed to cover most of the wall with foam and it was only 330ml. I’ve seen what mentos and coke do together (yes i have put mentos into a 2 liter coke bottle to see it explode). i have also seen a liter and half half frozen bottle of diet coke spray half the bottle all over the kitchen ceiling (my mother didnt like that either). Just wondering which has more explosive power my beer or an average coke bottle?
There’s no way to know without analyzing a sample of your beer.
The CO2 in a homebrew can vary greatly so there is no way of knowing with tasting the products in question. I’m going to need two bottles of your homebrew. One to test with Mentos and another to drink while I watch the results.
My brother once made a batch of beer and stored it on his back porch. When the bottles started exploding, they were afraid to go out there, so they had wait for a cool night to venture out. When even small movements caused some of the bottles to explode they were forced to wait for a COLD night. Then they had to drink as fast as possible. Those beers had more CO2 than a Coke.
home beers usually explode when you add too much sugar to carbonate the beer half a cup of sugar is usually the amount you need for 5 gallons i dont try to add more because flying glass is not something i want to experience in the beer there was 3 kilos of beer malt and a kilo of honey for 5 gallons of beer (ill try the mentos in the beer another time)
Coke, at least in the UK, is carbonated to 3.75 volumes.
American pale ale has a recommended carbonation level of around 2.2-2.8 volumes, according to the Homebrew Digest. About the only beers that would get up above 3.5 volumes would be spritzy Belgians.
Well, your average coke bottle wouldn’t have the explosive power you’re thinking of. It’s DIET Coke and Mentosthat make such a violent pair. Nutrasweet is one of the key elements in the chemical reaction that makes the explosion. That said, the carbonation, though important, isn’t the essential element in the reaction. So, yes, it’s carbonated, but probably less than the beer, from what you’re describing.
ok thanks the beer fell from about 4 feet up and the diet coke was in my hand that might have helped the explosion of beer (my room smelled of beer for a couple days after that)