sterling214

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Have destroyed 3, yes 3 digital probe thermometers. The last one was bought at the lhbs and was supposed to be submersible. I'm really starting to doubt the temps I was reading during the mash of my last beer, but it tastes good so far for green beer.

GuitarBob

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I'm only on my fith batch and I already have a couple of blunders.

My 3rd batch using a Mr. Beer kit I misread the instructions and accidently used double the amount of hops I was supposed to. Beer ended up a little more bitter then I would have liked, but it was still a pretty decent beer, in fact I only have two left.

My 2nd batch I screwed up because I'm such a cheap ass. This was another Mr. Beer kit and the recipe only called for one can of hopped extract and one can of unhopped extract. Problem was I also had a bag of booster that came with it, and being too cheap to just throw it away I dumped into the wort and used it anyway. One month later the beer tasted like bubble gum flavored cough syrup.

It's been two months and I havn't thrown out that 2nd batch in hopes that in a year from now it will taste great. I guess the lesson here is that newbies shouldn't tweak recipes too much, especially if it's only to save 1$ worth of corn sugar.

CnnmnSchnpps

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great thread...

First batch, poured too hot water into better bottle to cool, and covered with plastic wrap. Physics took over, and the bb started to compress as the steam in it chilled. It now has a vaguely triangular shape.

Same batch, didn't realize I actually had a 5 gal BB until I poured in all the wort. Whoops. Attached an airlock anyway and woke up with a ton of crap all over the floor. The apartment smelled great for a while, though

Beer has only been in bottles for 2 weeks but seems to be coming along just fine

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Brauhaus 2151.

Yes these are bruises from brewing. Yes I'm comfortable with that.

BB1: EdWort's Apfelwein
BB2: IDA2 In the Doghouse Pale Ale

Bottled: IDA In the Doghouse Ale, JSW Citrus Wheat (Yuzu/Kabosu), FTS Oatmeal Stout, J2SW Citrus Wheat (Yuzu/Kabosu
/Shikuwasa), NBA Nut Brown Ale, IDA2 Kona Fire clone, 69IPAs - Nugget, Saaz

Next up:
"69 IPAs" single-hop series - Ahtanum, Citra, Amarillo, Simcoe, Colombus, Cascade.

madcapstudios

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Very first batch. Extract kit. Forgot to add hops. Having read Papazian, figured "RDWHAB it'll turn out fine."

It didn't.

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On Tap: Spam Adams, HopGoblin IPA, Summer Wheat
In Keg:
In Secondary:
In Primary: Oatmeal Stout, Belgian Wit

IrishLass

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On Saturday, Dan and I decided to bottle both our Apfelwein and the big IPA he's super proud of... while we brewed our 90 Shilling clone. I guess we had too much going on, because partway through bottling the IPA I looked at the stove and noticed the corn sugar boiling away. Oops. We dumped the bottles back into the bottling bucket *** added the corn sugar *** and started over. Could have been a much worse mistake, I'm just sorry it had to happen to that specific brew.

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Primary: Cream of Three Crops (AG), EdWort's Pale Haus Ale (AG), Fat Bastard, EdWort's Apfelwein, 1 gallon CranRasp Lemonade, 1 gallon Yooper's Welch's Wine, 1 gallon Mojito experiment
Secondary: None
Drinking: Most likely
Bottled: 90 Shilling clone, Summertime Lemon Wheat, Irish Stout, Cream Ale, White Chocolate Pale Ale, Double IPA#1, Irish Red, Oatmeal Stout, Blackberry Stout, Summer Lager, Mexican Lager, Hard Lemonade, EdWort's Apfelwein, Hoppy's 420 Double IPA.

coffeegod

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I fermented a brown ale at 80 degrees for two weeks. At the end my beer tasted like a belgium tripple not a brown but it was a damn good belgium tripple.

slomo

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I keep forgetting to add priming sugar!!! For the love of god someone help me.

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Primary: guinness clone, IIPA
Secondary:
Bottled: RIS
The beatings will continue until morale improves!

Pete79

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Not beer related but I messed up while racking my first batch of apfelwein to my bottling bucket. I had been been sipping on a sample glass and bent over to pick something up. I accidentally spilled about half of what was left in my glass into the almost full bottling bucket. Still turned out great!

Catch-22

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I was starting to pitch once and my dog came in from outside. It was raining and he proceeded to shake over my open fermenting bucket. Beer turned out pretty good. Slight collie taste but pretty good.

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Dwight Schrute: In an ideal world I would have all ten fingers on my left hand so my right hand could just be a fist for punching.

Beerdrop

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I did the ole 'forgot to close the spigot' trick on my primary bucket. So I'm cooling my wort through a plate chiller and focusing more on the connections on the chiller than the better part of a 1/2 gallon of wort on the basement floor. Beer turned out great though.


Boilover? Check
Too much priming sugar? Check
Unsanitized object(s) in wort? Check

Sanitize Airlock by BOILING (note avatar)? Check

Others? Not check (yet)

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FOR RENT: Space for witty quote

Primary 1: Robust Porter
Primary 2:
Secondary:
Bottled: McIrish Red, Amazing Grain IPA, Take 2 Porter, Cheap and Dirty Bitter
Kegged: Belgium Doppel Time