Exploding Beer

[Deisel 38]

Looking for opinions of the most beer drinking people I know (virtually anyway). So I keep my beer bottles laying flat on the shelf of the fridge. For some reason, every time I grab one it explodes all over the counter when I pop the cap. At first I thought I'd set in down a little rough when extracting a frosty one from the box, so I started paying attention. I set it down gentle as a lamb but no change. Beer everywhere. I've never seen this before, and I've opened a few beers in my day. Has anyone else encountered this or am I having some twilight zone shit happening in my fridge? FWIW - They're Stone IPAs which are quite tasty and I would like to stop pouring half of every bottle down the drain. Help...  

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[gowlerk 2,245]

What is the attachment to your post? 

[BillyVance 34]

8 hours ago, gowlerk said:

What is the attachment to your post? 

Yeah I couldn't get it to download either. 

[Deisel 38]

[Deisel 38]

Still figuring out how the attachments work.

[BillyVance 34]

Have you tried storing the bottles upright? 

[Baksteen 84]

Eliminating the obvious:

Are the bottles touching the back or side wall of the fridge or is your fridge very cold?
Is the beer heavily carbonated?

[OrphanBlue 39]

Those are Stone beers which have conditioned bottles. When they go from horizontal to vertical the residual yeast that settles on the side really tickles the CO2. Also, if it's only this batch they may have been over conditioned resulting in your unfortunate beercanos. Had that problem with a batch from a great little brewery called Greenbush. Not only did they give me some learnin' but also made good by matching my skunk 6 with a fresh 12.