Joerg said:
Hello Martin,
Creating software is mess-free, except for the occasional beer spill
onto the keyboard. Making beer is not. We have done it back in the
college days and had to stop when neighbors complained about the stench.
Oh, and we had a few crates of bottle fermenting stuff explode in
somebody's dorm room.
Reminds me of one my old college roommates that decided to make some wine in his
closet. He took a 5 gallon water bottle and added grape juice, sugar and some
yeast. Someone had told him that the fermentation would create carbon dioxide
so he knew better than to cap the bottle tightly. Unfortunately, he hadn't
heard of using a rubber stopper with a hole in it and a tube into a cup of
water. His solution was to just put a balloon over the neck of the bottle.
About 2:30 one morning we awoke to a mighty boom and a rather foul smell when
the balloon burst.
In the end, the wine was some of the foulest tasting stuff we ever tasted, but
since it had alcohol it we were obliged to drink it anyway.