Brewing things you CAN do, but SHOULDN'T...

1. Use a burner indoors or a poorly ventilated area.
2. Use table sugar.
3. Put hot wort in a glass carboy.
4. Keep your burner running while using a chiller (Bird!).
5. Use bleach as a no-rinse sanitizer.
6. Allow your pet anywhere near your wort.
7. Pitch dry yeast without creating a starter.
8. Use bread yeast.
9. Wait a few minutes to clean up a boil-over from the stove.
10. Use old ingredients.

I'm going to quibble with one of those....







#7. No starters for dry yeast. Not needed at all. Or did you mean "rehydrate"? Or did you mean "liquid"?

11. Add raw meat to the fermenter.
12. Use a plastic water bottle as a fermenter.
13. Claim that your way is the ONLY way.

14. Start a siphon by simply sucking on the end of the racking hose. (I've done it without problem, but know that I shouldn't.)

15. Ferment a high OG beer with an airlock, expecially in a closet near SWMBO's clothes.
16. Get on this forum ans ask "how to boost the ABV in my beer"

Yuri_Rage said:

13. Claim that your way is the ONLY way.

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But my way IS the only way. Isn't it?

17. Ask everyone on your favorite brewing forum to make fun of one another.

(it seemed like a good idea when I was drunk)

Yuri_Rage said:

13. Claim that your way is the ONLY way.

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Unless it has to do with decoction mashing.

18. Putting your homebrew in the witches brew at the begining of MacBeth....

Dude said:

Unless it has to do with decoction mashing.

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You read my mind.

19. Worry.

Yuri_Rage said:

17. Ask everyone on your favorite brewing forum to make fun of one another.

(it seemed like a good idea when I was drunk)

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That one got closed down real fast.

20. Substitute peat-smoked for Rauch. Equal weights.

21. Turn an enjoyable hobby in to a suck a$$ job.

22. Pitch on the yeast cake without a blowoff tube.

23. Brew without a beer in hand.

hialtitude said:

23. Brew without a beer in hand.

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I don't think I can physically do that!

hialtitude said:

23. Brew without a beer in hand.

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Actually I like to brew in the mornings so I generally have a few cups of coffee for brewing.
I like to have a beer after everything is done to remind me why I do all the work

Dan

That's why I use one of those beer hats. Then use the tube as my racking cane. wait, should that be number 24?

Ho-Fo_Sho! said:

Actually I like to brew in the mornings

Dan

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I see no conflict with #23 here.

24. Brew swill because it is what your friends like to drink. No use wasting your valuable time and fermenter space/bottles brewing garbage. If they like Budweiser so much they can go buy it.

#25 Ask what an EAC is without reading the entire post.

shbrewer said:

#25 Ask what an EAC is without reading the entire post.

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WTH is an EAC?:fro:

26. Have a close look as you remove the airlock to replace it with a blow off tube when the fermenting wort is filling it.

27. Turn the water on to your wort chiller and then talk to your next door neighbor without checking to make sure the discharge hose hasn't hopped out of the sink.

Exception: If your kitchen floor really needs a good cleaning.

Beermaker said:

WTH is an EAC?:fro:

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See this thread

http://homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=18679