Don't Do That.

[GnenieGone]

Don't marry a women with 2 young kids. You may be parenting 2 of THEIR kids later in life.

Flocc it..just don't marry. Find 10 acres, build a tiny home and buy a doll for entertainment!

 

[Stupidsexyflanders]

Oh ouch. I hope you've healed up alright.

Few days of crutches, all good now. But, mentally, still feel the fool!

 

[schematix]

Don't marry

^^^ this

 

[brewgar]

^^^ Sad, so sad.

 

[helterscelter]

Try to build a starter.

Do or do not there is no try.

Lol.

I made a 4l starter tonight boiling right in the flask. Attempted to add the dme to the flask through a funnel AFTER boiling my water. Dme turned into concrete immediately. Attempted to clear the blockage with a mixer rod. It got stuck in the funnel mouth. Attempted to save the day by raiding my daughter's construction paper to make a funnel with a bigger spout. Immediately made construction paper laminated concrete. Spilled dme all over the stove. Swmbo just shook her head and walked out of the kitchen.

Don't do that

In the end I have a mess and a 4l starter cooling in the sink. Not bad

 

[biochemedic]

^ definitely don't do that...DME goes into cold/cool water first!

 

[kh54s10]

A not so serious don't do that.... I run my IC from a single handle kitchen faucet. I reach through the kitchen window to turn it on. I turned it to the side. THE HOT SIDE. Now I am wondering why it is taking so long to cool. Fortunately it was not that long..

 

[mongoose33]

A not so serious don't do that.... I run my IC from a single handle kitchen faucet. I reach through the kitchen window to turn it on. I turned it to the side. THE HOT SIDE. Now I am wondering why it is taking so long to cool. Fortunately it was not that long..

Hah! Had a friend over for the end of brew day last month; we get the IC in the wort, turn the water on full blast, and for some reason, when I turn off the water, the temp of the wort starts to climb.

Somebody forgot to turn off the propane burner under the kettle. It's harder to chill wort that way. Don't do that!

 

[pshankstar]

Hah! Had a friend over for the end of brew day last month; we get the IC in the wort, turn the water on full blast, and for some reason, when I turn off the water, the temp of the wort starts to climb.

Somebody forgot to turn off the propane burner under the kettle. It's harder to chill wort that way. Don't do that!

At a home brew club event, we had some people watching, talking, asking questions, etc... I was in the middle of answering some questions, turned off the burner and started chilling my wort all while talking and what not. What I didn't realize was, I didn't turn the burner off all the way. I feel for you! It wouldn't drop below 85 degrees... Oops, don't do that!

 

[bikedave99]

Cleaning out the Keezer, put the beer back in close the lid and wonder why it is getting so cold in there, but don't worry about it and leave for the night. Wake up to my Octoberfest that has been carbing for the big weekend party frozen solid. I left the temp prob outside in 90+ degrees set for 40. The Keezer never turned off. Yea, don't do that.

Haha, just did this last night! Kegged up 10 gallons of 3-crop threw it in the keezer and dislodged the temp probe. Thankfully I check this morning... why so much frost in my keezer... Wasn't frozen yet.

 

[mongoose33]

I had one other goof last weekend. I'm trying to do LODO methods, including underletting in the mash tun. I'm pumping strike water from my BK into the ball valve at the base of the mash tun. All is going fine. I finally empty the BK, and turn off the pump. I use a couple of hemostats to clamp off the silicone hose so I don't dump that on the floor.

Once I clamped it off the hose, I disconnected it from the ball valve. It would have worked better if I'd closed that ball valve before removing the camlock connection to the ball valve.

Don't do that.

I lost about a quart or a little more of wort on the floor, on the BK, it was a mess. I have a lock on the ball valve so it wasn't easy to get it closed. That lock is coming off. I'm thinking that's a mistake that will be unlikely to be repeated.

 

[doug293cz]

I had one other goof last weekend. I'm trying to do LODO methods, including underletting in the mash tun. I'm pumping strike water from my BK into the ball valve at the base of the mash tun. All is going fine. I finally empty the BK, and turn off the pump. I use a couple of hemostats to clamp off the silicone hose so I don't dump that on the floor.

Once I clamped it off the hose, I disconnected it from the ball valve. It would have worked better if I'd closed that ball valve before removing the camlock connection to the ball valve.

Don't do that.

I lost about a quart or a little more of wort on the floor, on the BK, it was a mess. I have a lock on the ball valve so it wasn't easy to get it closed. That lock is coming off. I'm thinking that's a mistake that will be unlikely to be repeated.

Luckily, the wort rushing out of the ball valve prevents O2 from diffusing into the bulk of the wort!

Brew on

 

[irontodd]

Span a car battery terminals with a wrench and your wedding ring. Don't do that!

 

[mongoose33]

Luckily, the wort rushing out of the ball valve prevents O2 from diffusing into the bulk of the wort!

Brew on

I can't decide whether I should like that post or give you a derisive snort.....

SNNNEEEERRRRTTTT.

 

[stella_tigre]

Span a car battery terminals with a wrench and your wedding ring. Don't do that!

Ow ow ow!
When I worked wiring avionics rigs, I heard stories of a guy that shorted out 28V, 85A to ground with his ring. It was apparently quite a burn. IF I had to work in something with power on (debugging) I removed my rings more than once. No bracelets, either.

 

[schematix]

Be glad it wasn't 480V with a short circuit curent of 100kA

Your evaporated finger would be the least of your concerns.

 

[Rhaop]

You guys need to google Qalos, silicone rings, STOP wearing metal bands to work!!

 

[shoengine]

It's stuck in there pretty good.

 

[johnstod]

Ow ow ow!
When I worked wiring avionics rigs, I heard stories of a guy that shorted out 28V, 85A to ground with his ring. It was apparently quite a burn. IF I had to work in something with power on (debugging) I removed my rings more than once. No bracelets, either.

And this is why my ring is titanium just in case I get a shock

 

[Pkrd]

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It's stuck in there pretty good.

I don’t see your point.

Even though it’s carbon, you can’t carbonate with graphite.

 

[brhenrio]

Span a car battery terminals with a wrench and your wedding ring. Don't do that!

I gapped the starter on a tractor at work and welded the damn wrench onto the posts! Dont do that!

 

[bleme]

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It's stuck in there pretty good.

An air compressor will fix that right up. Just don't point it at anyone you like.

 

[_BullDog_]

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It's stuck in there pretty good.

Twss

 

[sfrisby]

Somebody forgot to turn off the propane burner under the kettle. It's harder to chill wort that way. Don't do that!

Been there done that.

 

[MaryB]

I trained new hires in the electronics shop at the casino. My boss got on a kick of hiring college electrical engineering grads with no common sense. His last one he ever hired came in the shop with my boss, introduced himself then asked what was that I was working on...

First clue... he doesn't have a clue! It was a large screen monitor for a slot machine. I had it in and was graphing the high voltage and some drive voltages to try and catch the spike that was destroying $300 picture tubes. I had the high voltage anode uncovered and a probe wedged in it, 50,000 volts on it...

Newbie asks what is that and sticks his finger in it in front of my boss, he finally learned why we kept going through college kids... when newbie woke up where he landed against the other wall of the shop my boss said "you are fired"... he lasted 10 minutes.

I got to vet hires after that and we got 3 who learned electronics on their own and could fix simple stuff like monitors freeing me up for the difficult problems/special projects.

Span a car battery terminals with a wrench and your wedding ring. Don't do that!

 

[TANSTAAFB]

I was so excited to use my new Jaded King Cobra chiller. Had a guy from the homebrew club over, got to talking, started chilling and was VERY impressed by the 205 to 70 drop in about 7 minutes. Pulled the chiller, rinsed it off, drank a beer, transferred to the fermenter...oh ****...I forgot to turn off the induction burner! Wort was over 100° into the fermenter. DON'T DO THAT!

I'm even more impressed with the Jaded chiller after realizing that it was working up hill and still dropped the temps that quickly!

 

[stella_tigre]

I was so excited to use my new Jaded King Cobra chiller. Had a guy from the homebrew club over, got to talking, started chilling and was VERY impressed by the 205 to 70 drop in about 7 minutes. Pulled the chiller, rinsed it off, drank a beer, transferred to the fermenter...oh ****...I forgot to turn off the induction burner! Wort was over 100° into the fermenter. DON'T DO THAT!

I'm even more impressed with the Jaded chiller after realizing that it was working up hill and still dropped the temps that quickly!

I was going to say, our Jaded Hydra is 212 to 75 in less than 4 minutes (6 gal wort) this time of year, I was going to be unimpressed! But we take the kettle off the burner to chill, so not quite the same thing.

 

[brewskitom]

I'm boilin' up my starter in the flask.
Oh, I forgot to mix in some yeast nutrient.
I'll just do that now...

Don't do that.

This:

https://www.morebeer.com/products/fermcaps-foam-control-1-oz.html

it's f*&%ing magic! One drop in your starter and boil overs are a thing of the past. I will never make a starter without it again.

Brulosophy has a review of it as well

http://brulosophy.com/2014/10/02/fermcap-s-the-magical-cure-for-boilovers/

Seriously. Buy some before your next brew day.

 

[Ike]

Less of a "don't do that" and more of a "just be prepared"...

When you are an avid maker of hard cider, and the local grocery store has a sale on their juice at 50% off, realize that walking up to the customer service desk and requesting 48 half-gallon bottles will earn you a certain kind of look.

...aaaand you'll also have to wait until Sunday to pick it all up, when the next truckload arrives.

 

[Lefou]

And this is why my ring is titanium just in case I get a shock

Titanium is still metal, is it not?
If you insist on wearing it, wrap your ring in electrical tape and be careful.

BTW, that monitor story is pretty funny. During my time, I was fixing EGA/CGA PC monitors at depot level for the Army. The old monitors had copper alignment coils on the neck and adjusting the beams required moving tabbed magnets on the CRT neck. I had a couple RF pinhole burns to the fingers, not fun ...

 

[johnstod]

Titanium is still metal, is it not?
If you insist on wearing it, wrap your ring in electrical tape and be careful.

Been zapped and shocked many times with it on, they have about 3% of the conductivity of copper so while being conductive it's very hard for it to pass a large amount of it into you.

Spend most of my time elbow deep in servers so maybe should take it off

 

[bleme]

When you are an avid maker of hard cider, and the local grocery store has a sale on their juice at 50% off, realize that walking up to the customer service desk and requesting 48 half-gallon bottles will earn you a certain kind of look.

I've gotten that look! When I ask for someone to bring a ladder so they can pull all the juice off the overstock shelves as I had already emptied the regular shelf. Hey, if they didn't want me to buy it all, they should have posted a limit...

 

[MaryB]

Titanium is conductive, not as good as copper but the difference is not that great! It is about the same as steel and I am not hanging onto a hunk of steel and sticking it in a wall socket!

Been zapped and shocked many times with it on, they have about 3% of the conductivity of copper so while being conductive it's very hard for it to pass a large amount of it into you.

Spend most of my time elbow deep in servers so maybe should take it off

 

[wyowolf]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/dammit.647204/

this...^^^^^^^^^^^^^ dont do this...

 

[TANSTAAFB]

I wish I had found these when I was plumbing...
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[seabush]

Closet farts

Use a starter they said. Pitch at high krausen they said. Use a blow-off tube they said. Do two out of three I said.

 

[seatazzz]

Closet farts

Use a starter they said. Pitch at high krausen they said. Use a blow-off tube they said. Do two out of three I said. View attachment 563633

That looks like what happens when you have a new friend over and they can't find the restroom with a GPS...

 

[brhenrio]

Dont forget about your fermentor, turn down garage temp, and suck up a quart of starsan. Also dont check on fermentor for a week so i have no clue when it went dry.

 

[cloudybrewer]

I'm in the process of building a keezer, but haven't had time to make a collar. Beer was ready, so I kegged it with the plan of hooking everything up, including my new perlick faucet, and just laying the faucet on top of the keg like a party tap.

Faucet handles move easier than I thought, and when bumped, dump beer down the side of the keg, onto the top of the CO2 cylinder and regulator below, and all over the mess of hoses on the freezer floor. Don't do that.

 

[brhenrio]

I'm in the process of building a keezer, but haven't had time to make a collar. Beer was ready, so I kegged it with the plan of hooking everything up, including my new perlick faucet, and just laying the faucet on top of the keg like a party tap.

Faucet handles move easier than I thought, and when bumped, dump beer down the side of the keg, onto the top of the CO2 cylinder and regulator below, and all over the mess of hoses on the freezer floor. Don't do that.

Been there. At least it was contained for you! I installed my taps the next day!