Well I messed up my first batch. Only a 1 gallon brew but my first. The brewprocess went fine and I was all excited to bottle my summer wheat up last night.
Long story short I had a battle with my carboy, siphon, siphon hose and my brew pot. Carboy fell off the counter, about knocked me out, landed in my brew/bottling pot along with a drip container I had on the counter, beer all over the kitchen floor, and me mad as hell. At that point I knew it was ruined. I drained about 2/3's from my carboy and was having difficulty trying to get the remaining beer to siphon out, tipped the carboy while trying to get my bottling pot and it fell over.
F ME.
I practiced siphoning from the pot to bottles and it went fine but I guess going from the carboy to the pot screwed me over. So I learned from it. Next time I will have a 2nd person there to help, I'm ordering an auto siphon, and going to research how to make or buy a decent bottling bucket vs a normal pot.
Sad thing is I said F it and picked up my pot and took a few healthy swigs and it tasted good! So to make me feel better I got back on the horse and did a late night brewing of a blue moon clone. I'll be ready next time. Just had to vent.
Long story short I had a battle with my carboy, siphon, siphon hose and my brew pot. Carboy fell off the counter, about knocked me out, landed in my brew/bottling pot along with a drip container I had on the counter, beer all over the kitchen floor, and me mad as hell. At that point I knew it was ruined. I drained about 2/3's from my carboy and was having difficulty trying to get the remaining beer to siphon out, tipped the carboy while trying to get my bottling pot and it fell over.
F ME.
I practiced siphoning from the pot to bottles and it went fine but I guess going from the carboy to the pot screwed me over. So I learned from it. Next time I will have a 2nd person there to help, I'm ordering an auto siphon, and going to research how to make or buy a decent bottling bucket vs a normal pot.
Sad thing is I said F it and picked up my pot and took a few healthy swigs and it tasted good! So to make me feel better I got back on the horse and did a late night brewing of a blue moon clone. I'll be ready next time. Just had to vent.