I think this picture says it all. Fortunately, I caught it in time. Otherwise I would have had to replace a good portion of my wardrobe [emoji38]. Kaboom!
How did you manage to defuse that situation???I think this picture says it all. Fortunately, I caught it in time. Otherwise I would have had to replace a good portion of my wardrobe [emoji38]. Kaboom!View attachment 610487
I removed the lid EXTREMELY CAREFULLY and replaced the airlock with a blow off tube. Still had a little spillage but managed to limit it.How did you manage to defuse that situation???
I think this picture says it all. Fortunately, I caught it in time. Otherwise I would have had to replace a good portion of my wardrobe [emoji38]. Kaboom!View attachment 610487
Oh dude, that hurts. Guess it can't take the pressure.
Despite the waste of caps all wasnt lost. You could always use those bottling sugar drops and recap. Sucks but not total disaster. Sorry beer glass half full kinda guy I am.BTDT.. At least you HAD the priming sugar ready.
On one of my first batches, I bottled the 5 G. and I completely forgot about the priming sugar.
I've always read that you should only heat DME for a starter in the flask if you have a gas stove. Therefore, I've always boiled mine in a pan first, then transferred to the flask.
Brewing at 1°. Fill garage-housed brew kettle from outdoor faucet. But faucet covered by styro-bucket and worked! So I didn't have to fill 7g from kitchen and carry to garage. But 40m later, into the mash I'm thinking, maybe I should just run the water so .... too late. Hose froze. Spent entire mash and boil trying to thaw hose to use for chiller.
Got kids throwing rocks in there?Just last week I was milling grains for a planned brewday the following morning. My mill can only handle 7 lb of grain at a time so I usually have to stop halfway through and refill the hopper. Well this time I didn't stop, instead I decided to leave my drill running in one hand and reach for the container holding the rest of my grains with the other hand. Its at this perfect moment that the rollers in the mill seize up, causing my low-speed high-torque drill to start whipping the whole damn mill around, throwing unmilled grain all over my back deck, knocking over the bucket of milled grain spilling it also, and completely covering my face in flour. Looking back it's quite comical now, but at the time that was not a good day.
I managed to salvage probably half of the grain that had already been milled into the bucket, and I used it to brew yesterday after re-acquiring the remaining ingredients. After I cleaned out the mash tun I found a tiny pebble in the bottom... there's the culprit. That's the 2nd time I've had a pebble seize up my mill.
I remember re-sanitizing the bottling bucket, dumping them all back in and started over bottling with the priming sugar. That was a long night.
Been there, done that! From my tasting notes “Beer tastes slightly oxidized”
Stupid tastes bad!
i've had geysers with spiced beers that are over half a year old rather often.
Being down in my storage area...Showing off my wine racks of aging mead to my neighbor and bragging about how I've never, ever experienced any issues with over-carbonation, bottle bombs, etc. because "I know what I'm doing". At that INSTANT having a cork launch itself out of a bottle of rhodomel that was only about a month old. Cork nails me straight in "the boys" from about three feet away. Drop to floor...laugh, cry, cry some more. She is absolutely hysterical...literally in tears. Start wringing mead out of my clothing. Not making eye contact. Realize it looks like I peed myself and I smell vaguely of roses, honey and humiliation....
Could have been, but I wouldn't have heard it over the ringing in my ears, the sounds of me whining and my neighbors hysterical laughter anyway...By any chance was Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” playing in the back ground?
OuchSo, I kegged one of my first beers this weekend. And put together my first lines etc. etc. Yesterday I had a couple pints - a blonde ale - and it was fantastic. Kegged beer is just a thing of beauty.
Then I went to pull a pint tonight. About 3 ounces came out before it started spitting CO2.
At first I thought maybe I mixed up the IN and OUT lines so I opened and checked but it was good. Then I noticed...a couple of inches of beer o the bottom of my keezer.
Oh no.
All 5 gallons gone. Absolutely depressing. Luckily I have 2 others on tap that aren't leaking all over the place. The swivel nut on my liquid DC needed just an 1/8th turn more to get a good seal. Live and learn. Check your damn hoses.
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Well I have a new one and I don't know if it is embarrassing or just an alignment of random errors.
The plan was to brew one of Ron Patterson's historic mild recipes. I messed up and forgot brown malt but randomly added C75 in beersmith, I figured add some brown and go with it. Oh and I am out of amber so off to the lhbs, I got in a minor fender bender on the way, this is going well already, I need 1lb 4 oz he has 9oz. I was planing on buying 10 to refill, ahhh! At this point I decide that I will just add some dark munich and call it a day. It will be closeish. I get back home and grab the kettles and fill one to heat to mash temp, all is well. go to assemble the other, forgot to drill it for the new TC weldless. OK, not a problem. I don't have the correct hole saw. Shut down the burner and run to the big orange. They don't carry the size so back to the house. I kick the heat back on the mash water and commence work on the other kettle, drill a 1-1/2'' hole and go for the Dremil, no flap wheel or sanding drums, so a file it is. get the proper size opening and all is well. Then i realize my mash water is a 180, OK it can cool, wait why am I a gallon low? I forgot to tighten the weldless past just hand tight and it is pooled on the stove top. I get it cleaned up and tight. Mash goes to plan using my new pump and false bottom (gained 10 points eff). The boil goes well just a little shy of my volume but no big deal. 15min left I drop in my new chiller to sanitize and to run some boiling wort through the pump also. just a buzz from the pump, disassemble and it is the motor locked up great but not the end of the world I just have to do it the old way. Time to cool turn on the chiller water and run to grab the paddle from the storage room and come back to the chiller spraying water into the wort over a gallon. There was a pinhole in one of my brazed joints where the coils connect to the outlet. Now I had pressure tested this to 100psi of nitrogen overnight, must have been slag and the heat broke it free. at this point I just grabbed a bottle of bourbon and went to the couch. The whole thing got dumped the next morning.
The whole thing just seems like a joke, a very bad joke.
That sir.... is an epic tale of disaster which rivals the Hindenburg.
My guess is that with your tenacity, once you've corrected your setup and methods, you will make some incredibly fantastic beers.
I have been brewing for probably 4 years and probably 35 batches, I just finally decided to move on from my entry level setup to something better and eventually to a RIMS for the mash. That was my first time dumping a beer. I should know to stop once things go sideways.
Well I have a new one and I don't know if it is embarrassing or just an alignment of random errors.
The plan was to brew one of Ron Patterson's historic mild recipes. I messed up and forgot brown malt but randomly added C75 in beersmith, I figured add some brown and go with it. Oh and I am out of amber so off to the lhbs, I got in a minor fender bender on the way, this is going well already, I need 1lb 4 oz he has 9oz. I was planing on buying 10 to refill, ahhh! At this point I decide that I will just add some dark munich and call it a day. It will be closeish. I get back home and grab the kettles and fill one to heat to mash temp, all is well. go to assemble the other, forgot to drill it for the new TC weldless. OK, not a problem. I don't have the correct hole saw. Shut down the burner and run to the big orange. They don't carry the size so back to the house. I kick the heat back on the mash water and commence work on the other kettle, drill a 1-1/2'' hole and go for the Dremil, no flap wheel or sanding drums, so a file it is. get the proper size opening and all is well. Then i realize my mash water is a 180, OK it can cool, wait why am I a gallon low? I forgot to tighten the weldless past just hand tight and it is pooled on the stove top. I get it cleaned up and tight. Mash goes to plan using my new pump and false bottom (gained 10 points eff). The boil goes well just a little shy of my volume but no big deal. 15min left I drop in my new chiller to sanitize and to run some boiling wort through the pump also. just a buzz from the pump, disassemble and it is the motor locked up great but not the end of the world I just have to do it the old way. Time to cool turn on the chiller water and run to grab the paddle from the storage room and come back to the chiller spraying water into the wort over a gallon. There was a pinhole in one of my brazed joints where the coils connect to the outlet. Now I had pressure tested this to 100psi of nitrogen overnight, must have been slag and the heat broke it free. at this point I just grabbed a bottle of bourbon and went to the couch. The whole thing got dumped the next morning.
The whole thing just seems like a joke, a very bad joke.
Well, I have made many mistakes homebrewing and so far the ones I remember the most thankfully I have not repeated.
A few days after filling my kegs from the fermentor I finally got around to clean it. When I started to remove the lower valve, I quickly realized that I forgot to purge the 10 psi of co2 that was left in the tank when the remaining beer, Yeast, and dry hops shot all over me from the waist down. Good times!
At least I smelled
Good..
Brewing at 1°. Fill garage-housed brew kettle from outdoor faucet. But faucet covered by styro-bucket and worked! So I didn't have to fill 7g from kitchen and carry to garage. But 40m later, into the mash I'm thinking, maybe I should just run the water so .... too late. Hose froze. Spent entire mash and boil trying to thaw hose to use for chiller.
Ok, I jinxed myself today when dropping out the dry hops prior to kegging. Guess I better put a BIG note on my fermentor to “check PSi”. Least I smell good! Anyone make a hop cologne or perfume? [emoji12]
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Impressive
Ended up with 13 gallons of IPA instead of 15. Not bad for having the exposive mess all over my brew room.
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