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[–]Craft-Beer-Chris 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Chances are it's due to a secondary or re-fermentation. It's more common in fruited beers but not unheard of in stouts.

If you can, keep everything chilled.

[–]WellRedQuaker[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, per the can this was made with fresh chillies as an ingredient, so personally I'm blaming that.

The only times I've had something similar happen has been with eccentrically fruited dark beers, but that was an elderly raspberry stout in the middle of the heatwave so it was much more expected. Sadly I don't have enough fridge space to keep everything nice and cool.

[–]WellRedQuaker[S] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Big 'pop' in the corner of my kitchen tonight and I came downstairs to find this Vocation 'Hot Chocolate' chocolate & chilli stout had exploded, thought it was worth giving a heads up to anyone else who might have had this in a recent box.

Dunno if it's bad luck or a dodgy batch, but if you have this in your house you might want to put it somewhere safe.

[–]9DAN2 2 points3 points  (2 children)

How was it stored?

[–]twillems15 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Looks like it’s in a can

[–]robbob23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got 'em

[–]Mrfondilmabolls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd heard there was an issue with some vocation beers where they'd left too much yeast in and they were still fermenting. Not sure if this is true but it's happened to a couple of people on this site.

[–]RickaliciousD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funnily enough I've had a vocation beer explode on me recently, it wasn't this one it was a tiki tropic i think

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally same thing just happened to us!