Good Morning

First thing (I know - it's a little later than I usually get started), a few observations:

1) A bottle of home brew can explode even as much as six weeks after bottling.
2) While an exploding beer bottle, with the sounds of breaking glass, may wake you from a deep sleep at 3:00 am, your fermenting carboy blowing its cork at some point after that probably won't.
3) Dried home brew is not as difficult to get off a smooth plaster ceiling as exploded hard-boiled egg yolk is to get out of a spackled ceiling, but it's still pretty difficult.

As these observations are fresh in my mind this morning, I might make the suggestion here to anyone who is going to take up home brewing that, even though you think you have your gas escape tube firmly corked into your carboy, you might add the extra precaution of slipping a large garbage bag over the top of the whole thing (but, according to a fellow brewer - don't expect a garbage bag encasing your freshly bottled brews to stop the glass shard missiles of exploding bottles). And I also would suggest you don't store any of your bottled pride behind your sofa.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.