This isn't that big a deal, but I gotta post it to people who might understand.
I am a pretty impulsive and impatient person. Only a small portion of the batches I've made in the past few months have gotten to 3 weeks in the bottle - I always wonder how they taste, basically, and even though I know they aren't ready, I taste them anyway.
I have my first batch of partial grain bottled right now, and I swore I'd let it go 3 weeks.
Tonight I rinsed a Grolsch bottle a friend gave back to me and went to put it in the box I keep bottles in. I saw all the other bottles closed and thought, 'Why did I shut them all? They need to be open to not get nasty inside!', and I reached over and opened the swing top. A gust of pressured CO2 came out and I wondered how that happened for a second before I remembered that I bottled a Belgian pale ale last week in these bottles! This box is full of conditioning beer that I swore I would let go 3 weeks!
I really need to keep better records, I am impatient and disorganized about stuff too much!
So, I shut it really quick and thought about leaving it in the fridge to drink, but I decided to let it sit with the others and condition the entire 3 weeks. It probably won't be as carbed, but I swore I'd let them all go 3 weeks, so I'm going to, and this will be my learning lesson, the hard way.
Anybody else done something like that? Opened a beer before it was ready, on accident?
What else has happened because you were hasty or disorganized?
I am a pretty impulsive and impatient person. Only a small portion of the batches I've made in the past few months have gotten to 3 weeks in the bottle - I always wonder how they taste, basically, and even though I know they aren't ready, I taste them anyway.
I have my first batch of partial grain bottled right now, and I swore I'd let it go 3 weeks.
Tonight I rinsed a Grolsch bottle a friend gave back to me and went to put it in the box I keep bottles in. I saw all the other bottles closed and thought, 'Why did I shut them all? They need to be open to not get nasty inside!', and I reached over and opened the swing top. A gust of pressured CO2 came out and I wondered how that happened for a second before I remembered that I bottled a Belgian pale ale last week in these bottles! This box is full of conditioning beer that I swore I would let go 3 weeks!
I really need to keep better records, I am impatient and disorganized about stuff too much!
So, I shut it really quick and thought about leaving it in the fridge to drink, but I decided to let it sit with the others and condition the entire 3 weeks. It probably won't be as carbed, but I swore I'd let them all go 3 weeks, so I'm going to, and this will be my learning lesson, the hard way.
Anybody else done something like that? Opened a beer before it was ready, on accident?
What else has happened because you were hasty or disorganized?
