J8D

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...coming home and entering your garage to check on your most recent brew's fermentation status only to find that your failure to have a temp controller on your lagering fridge (because it had stayed at a consistant 33 for the last week) has resulted in a frozen and shattered carboy full of a five week old hellesbock that you took the time to do a triple decoction mash the results of which was one of the tastiest homebrews yet as sampled during the pre lagering hydrometer taste test. I believe I am currently at stage 2 (pain and guilt) of the grieving process. I'm not sure how much covering your cement floor with quality beer helps a house's resale value. It sure smells tasty!!

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J8D

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Stout Faucet: Walking Dead Guy Ale
Faucet 1: Suicide Blonde Ale
Faucet 2: EmptyFaucet 3: Empty
Faucet 3: Orange You Glad Pale Ale
Satellite Faucet: Walking Dead Guy Ale
Primary 1: Tongue Twister IIPA
Primary 2: Guinness Clone
Primary 3: Wheat #2

Upcoming Brews: Wheat IPA, Pale Ale, Belgian Pale Ale, Blue Moon Clone

Total gallons brewed: 445 gallons

ronaldo_fanbelt

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Drink a home brew for a fallen friend!

GilaMinumBeer

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Well, so long as it stay frozen it should be easier to clean up.

JefeTheVol

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I think grieving stages III and IV are: post pics and wallow in community misery, respectively.
-Jefe-

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-Sometimes I feel like I'm up beer creek without a pint glass-

-May the IBU's be with you-

brewagentjay

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Yes Pics Will Help With Grieving Process

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Teufel Hunden Brewing Company

Primary - Apfelwein v2, JChrapewein, Light Scottish Ale, SW 420 v2, Devil Dog Ale Version 2
Secondary - OxiClean
Just Bottled - Jay's Irish Stout
On Deck - The Orginal Fat Tire
Planning - "Hail to the Chief -IIPA", "The Straw Berry Blonde"
NTBA - Wicked Ale

Semper Fi

Cyan

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"Lessons learned" is a very important process to follow after something so heart-breaking as this!

Don't use glass.
Wire in a circuit that would prevent this from happening again. Let me know if you need help with this.

J8D

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Solid copy on the lessons learned. Never trust a fridge with precious cargo unless you have a quality controller on it.

I never thought of using plastic. I guess I figured (with no justification) that glass was the better way to go. So plastic for lagering?

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J8D

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Stout Faucet: Walking Dead Guy Ale
Faucet 1: Suicide Blonde Ale
Faucet 2: EmptyFaucet 3: Empty
Faucet 3: Orange You Glad Pale Ale
Satellite Faucet: Walking Dead Guy Ale
Primary 1: Tongue Twister IIPA
Primary 2: Guinness Clone
Primary 3: Wheat #2

Upcoming Brews: Wheat IPA, Pale Ale, Belgian Pale Ale, Blue Moon Clone

Total gallons brewed: 445 gallons

Irrenarzt

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Glass is fine if you have a good control scheme. Many have good luck with Better Bottles but I have no experience with them. I use 6 and 7 gallon plastic buckets (I have 8 of these or so), 1 glass carboy, 1 half barrel SS keg and a 14 gallon conical. I would say the conical is best but it doesn't fit in my fridge so I use the keg usually for lagering.

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In Queue: Sour Blonde, Kriek, DIPA, Wee Heavy, Dubbel, Double Nelson, Milk Stout

Fermenting/Crashing: Session Porter, BDG, Cream Ale, Cider, Munich Helles, Baltic Porter, Wheat Wine, Sour Quad, Apricot pLambic

Kegged/Bottled: Flanders Red, Hopped-Up Saison, Brett Saison, Bourbon Barrel Milk Stout, Bourbon Barrel-Aged on Montmorencies Quad, Tripel, Raspberry Melomel, Rye Barleywine

DBbrewing

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Sorry for your loss, I am raising a pint for your loss.

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Dave
http://thebeerbunker.com/mash

primarys: Orange blossom mead
Secondaries:

Bottled; Mead

Kegged; Imperial Kolsch,
Dead Guy Clone
Kolsch, Oatmeal Stout, Octoberfest, Cascadian Dark ALE, Southern English Brown, Milk Chocolate Stout, Dark American Wheat,

Up Next; Beer

Corkster

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hmm... now the wife wants to know why I'm weeping on my keyboard..... Sorry about your loss.

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Give a man a beer and he'll drink for a minute. Teach a man to brew beer and you've created a monster.