Caplan

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Mine happened today. Not beer - but I bottled some apple wine. No problems, all went to plan. After cleaning up i decided to shake the excess water rapidly out of a syphon hose in a kind of whipping action. This beautifully executed move resulted in the hose ends nicely slapping me in my right b*llock!

Mrs. C found it highly amusing......

autoferret

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I boil'd over my wort and burn'd a buch of the Hops. Beer still came out GREAT!!!! I was amazed.

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Secondary: Merlot;
Keg: "Experimental" American Ale; Kinda Nutty Brown Ale;
Bottled: "Oatie the Oatmeal Stout"; NB Saison; "666" by request; NB 115th Dream hopbursted;EdWort's Apfelwein
Up Coming: Imperial Oatmeal Stout; House IPA

Denny's Evil Concoctions

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Hey, maybe you're on to something here. Toasted hops... hmm....

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Genghis77

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What? Am I the only one that burned his house down as well as 600 surrounding acres?

Denny's Evil Concoctions

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Did the beer survive?!

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The Happy Mug

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Genghis, I pray you're kidding us.

Another dumb one was one of my very first batches. My first with DME, no less. Was doing a no boil kit, adding three pounds of DME to the carboy. I dumped it all in my funnel, and was trying to get it through.

I figured "screw this" and poured the boiling water onto the 3 lbs of DME in the funnel, figuring it would wash the DME right down.

I spent an hour clearing that funnel...

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From the store: Nothing right now, how sad
Up Next: Thinking about an amber rye
Secondary: "Not as Pale as Death" pale ale (since april, man I hate bottling.)
In bottles: Lager than Life Beer, Rocky Raccoon Honey Lager, A nameless Imperial Stout (my first AG!)

Genghis77

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Yeah, kidding on that one. But did manage to ruin a couple cabinet wood veneer doors. Steam from the wort warped them. Put a better hood and vent fan over the range to prevent that from repeating.

rewster451

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Nothing as good as what I've heard here, but one bonehead move tonight. I was removing the blowoff tube from my Irish Red and putting on the airlock. Simple, right? Not if you're an idiot. I had the wrong size rubber stopper. It was for a five gallon carboy, and was bigger than the ones for the 6.5 gallon carboy. So I had to rush around and find the right stopper. Then I put it on, and viola! It just comes right up and out. What the *#!? So I force it down really good, and it goes all the way down. Trying to get it out I break the airlock and have to get a screwdriver to wedge the stopper out. Luckily I have another airlock, which I stuff back in, carefully, and it slimes back up and almost falls out again. I don't know what the deal is, but just minutes ago I got it to stay. It's bubbling fine, and it doesn't seem to be ready to jump out again.

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Up next: Big Brew Off competition between me and Kaptain Karma as one team, and my two roommates as another--We'll be brewing Pale Ales with specifications on malts, hops, and total yeild to see who's version is better (and to end up with ten total gallons of great beer).
Also up soon: Belgian Dubbel
Primary: Grampa's Woodshed Apple Smoked Porter
Secondary: Zombiefoot California Common, Chocolate Strong Porter
Drinking: Seamus O'Drunkagan Irish Red, Humble Pie Imperial Stout, Capricorn IPA

SwAMi75

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In a huge rush, I failed to realize that the HBS didn't crush my grains. I didn't realize this until after I'd mashed in. I went ahead with it, and it actually fermented a little. It tasted like hell, though. I tried, but it got dumped.

That was the first attempt at the IPA that's in my sig now.

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anthrobe

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I have another one to add from brew day yesturday. The whole brew was going great. The immersion chiller was in and the boil time was done. I turned on the kitchen faucet and was cooling the beer good with the outlet hose draining into the sink. I had the outlet hose held down in the sink with a cup or something which seemed to be holding fine. I turned my back once and the hose came out of the sink and I am spraying water all over the kitchen. I was not thinking so I am there trying to get ahold of the flopping hose. I should have just turned off the water. By the time it was all done, I had dumped about 2 gallons of water all over the kitchen. Good thing the wife just left

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Tap1 - Kelly's Rasberry Cream Ale 7/11/07
Tap2 - Black Stap Porter (8/25/07)
Tap3 - Hefeweizen 7/05/07
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