a salute to my noob days

i'm not an expert by any means, but at least i can say i've advanced past this stage.

this is a picture of my first batch of beer (american wheat). while some of you may think, "what's wrong with this picture?"...this isn't my secondary fermenter.

i brewed a 5.5 gallon batch and thought it could hold its own in my 5.5 gallon carboy.

tossed in a pack of Notty, drove it from south florida to tallahassee, put it in my shower tub, and went to michigan for a week.

came back home to find it everywhere: ceiling, floor, walls...everwhere. only ~2.5 gallons remained in the fermenter.

so noob days and mistakes, i salute you. you have made me the brewer that i am today

Fun!
I brewed up the swmbo slayer, with some slight variations, and decided that a couple lbs of raspberries would serve it well in the primary.

i heard something in the night, but attributed it to metropolitan living.

and in the morning, i woke up to the bloodbath that was my shower. Raspberries on my 10ft ceiling even. it was amazing. and it was just 5.5 in my 6.5 fermentor

Wheres the after picture brewski???

Needs more SWMBO.