I can only assume that 1 rogue bottle went postal, causing a panic in the crate and the other 7 didn't know what to do but follow suit and explode also.
There was about 5 hours of cleaning up, removing shards of glass firmly embedded in the walls, ceiling and powered all over the coats hanging up. Naturally I wore my safety jandals and because of the specialist Health and Safety equipment used, managed to only cut my hands and feet in 12 or 13 different places - it could have been a lot worse!
So as we mourn our losses and close the lid on the mass grave, let us give thanks to Ninkasi the Sumerian Goddess of Brewing and Beer for sparing the remaining 24x 750ml bottles of magic liquid awesomeness, and we will honour her with mass consumption in around 3 weeks.
