Answers.Body: <p>One possible consequence is that the bottle will pop, sending gira all over the place and possibly hurting someone's eardrums.</p>
  
  <p>I don't know if opening the bottle before it bursts helps or, on the contrary, ensures that it bursts in someone's hands.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/1vx5h.jpg" alt="The late plastic bottle."></p>
  
  <p>An in the end, you don’t get to know what it tastes like. :’(</p>
  
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Body: <p>A couple of friend just came back from vacation in Lithuania and brought me a bottle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass" rel="noreferrer">gira</a>. However, the bottle is made of plastic (it looks like a soda bottle) and it suffered from what I guess is traveling in a plane cargo at low pressure: it expanded like a balloon, even the screw cap has a dome.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/gBCaq.jpg" alt="A expanded bottle of gira."></p>
  
  <p>What could be the consequences of this expansion on taste, preservation, carbonation or anything else I might have forgotten?</p>
  
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Title: A plastic bottle of gira (kvass) expanded in the plane: what are the possible consequence?
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ThreadText: # A plastic bottle of gira (kvass) expanded in the plane: what are the possible consequence?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-07-31)
  
  A couple of friend just came back from vacation in Lithuania and brought me a bottle of [gira](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass). However, the bottle is made of plastic (it looks like a soda bottle) and it suffered from what I guess is traveling in a plane cargo at low pressure: it expanded like a balloon, even the screw cap has a dome.
  
  ![A expanded bottle of gira.](https://i.sstatic.net/gBCaq.jpg)
  
  What could be the consequences of this expansion on taste, preservation, carbonation or anything else I might have forgotten?
  
  **Tags:** bottle-conditioning
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2015-07-31. Score: 3
  
  One possible consequence is that the bottle will pop, sending gira all over the place and possibly hurting someone's eardrums.
  
  I don't know if opening the bottle before it bursts helps or, on the contrary, ensures that it bursts in someone's hands.
  
  ![The late plastic bottle.](https://i.sstatic.net/1vx5h.jpg)
  
  An in the end, you don’t get to know what it tastes like. :’(
  
  
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