7# of LME spilled in the bottom of the car yesterday. SWMBO is not impressed. Hopefully I can remedy the situation before she nixes brewing haha. Anyone have anything similar happen?
LME Spill and other horror stories
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MeadWitch
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Not a beer brewer only mead and cider. What is LME?
SpanishCastleAle
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The stickiest stuff in the entire known universe...Liquid Malt Extract.
EDIT: jyda, just sell the car.
peachwein
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Ouch, good luck with that... I can't imagine that's going to come out without a fight!
OP
OP
Well it wasn't too bad. Lots of boiling hot water, a shop vac, and about an hour and a half. I ended up with perfectly dissolved wort in the shop vac. Though I did go against conventional wisdom and dumped this batch 
Scooby_Brew
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No way! Dude, you should have pitched some yeast into the shop vac!!!Though I did go against conventional wisdom and dumped this batch
OP
OP
No way! Dude, you should have pitched some yeast into the shop vac!!!
BIAC - Brew In A Car
or
BIAS - Brew In A Shopvac
Doesn't sound very appealing
SPLASTiK
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In November I was getting a delivery from BrewBrothers while I was in Portland who does free deliveries in the area over $200.
They called to say they were running late because of an LME disaster. They use CO2 to push LME out of the 55 gallon barrels into smaller containers when a customer has an order, they left one under pressure over night on accident and when they came into work that morning the barrel had exploded LME everywhere.
They called to say they were running late because of an LME disaster. They use CO2 to push LME out of the 55 gallon barrels into smaller containers when a customer has an order, they left one under pressure over night on accident and when they came into work that morning the barrel had exploded LME everywhere.
Hang Glider
Beer Drinker
reading this I have a flashback to Discovery Channel Brew Masters - the massive glue spill - probably less fun than LME!
OP
OP
I missed that whole show and I just found it on Comcast's OnDemand. I will have to look up that episode.
