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As a result of excessive pressure build up in the bottle, caused by bottling too early when there was still unfermented sugar in the brew. You must wait until all the sugars are fermented out before bottling. Then you bottle your beer adding a small amount of sugar. A secondary fermentation then occurs in the bottle which produces a small amount of carbon dioxide which gives you the fizz. Too much carbon dioxide will cause bottles to explode.

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The higher the temperature of molecules will get, the faster they'll start moving. When water at boiling point, it is 100 degrees, the water molecules will start moving so fast, that they'll turn from a liquid substance to gas. When they are in the gas mode their volume increases. So the volume of the water will get bigger then the volume the bottle can contain. So the pressure rises and the bottle explodes.

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