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"Diablo":1b48c6hc wrote: If you lie the bottles flat in your fridge, when you open them they foam. If you stand them upright they don't. I can't explain the science behind it but it only seems to affect Brooklyn.

My sample size was 3 six packs. I don't know if that counts as empirical evidence.[/quote:1b48c6hc]

Surely it's because the beer gets agitated when rotating it upwards. And for what it's worth I've had Leffe do this quite frequently too.

"muirgheasa":2pst9a0x wrote: Does everyone else have this problem?[/quote:2pst9a0x]It's news to me too.

It's got to be something that I'm doing unless Tesco in Dun Laoghaire and Obrien's in Dun Laoghaire get their Brooklyn from the same place (then it could be the distributor...).


Usually we pickup a 6 pack at one of the afore mentioned places, and then store it in the top shelf of the fridge on its side. (Usually the beer has been sitting for 1 or 2 days before the first one gets cracked open.)

Sometimes I get a pretty quick gush, sometimes it's fairly slow; but 3 or 4 of the bottles out of about 4 different 6 packs over several months have done it now. -This doesn't generally happen with other beers...


Adam

Between Diablo and I we're seeing this on 5 out of 7 six packs...

Next six pack is staying upright as an experiment! -Actually, I'll leave three laying down and 3 up right.


Adam

It's been a while since bought any, but I certainly had a lot of gushers in my time. Enough that the procedure I outlined is actually what I do when opening a bottle of Brooklyn.

Diablo is right and the same thing happens with miller bottles... I knew you'd find that fact interesting...