Rookie mistake costs me cash. :(

This is what I saw a split second after adding my hot wort to my carboy in a coolwater bath. There WAS cold water inside the carboy already but apparently it was not enough to cool it down fast enough to prevent the outside coldness from snapping the carboy right along the bottom.

So. Two hours work mashing and boiling, an ounce of hops and a few gallons of wort down the drain.

(expletive deleted).

Hah, I did the same in my pool. Here's to rookie mistakes we'll never make again. CHEERS!

And, thanks for taking the pic. It's hard, in the face of disaster, to raise the camera/cell. Many kudos to you.

Ooops...

I bet you will not do that again........

Sorry man.

I've done the same thing.

Hey at least it was in your tub! Could have been a lot worse...

Thanks everyone. It could have been a LOT worse, yes. It was a clean break, so no shards, either. Lucky. Did burn my foot a bit though when some of the wort came up and out but it's no big deal. And no, I will never do that again. But now I have no carboy except for my 1 gallon! I poured myself one of my five remaining bitter ales to commemorate my rookie mistake. Haha. Cheers.

Great Attitude, I know you pain,and I'll drink one for you, Cheers!!

So you still have 4 gallons of that batch left. Go get a Home Depot bucket to ferment whats left. Thanks for taking a picture and posting. Sorry for the loss. Glad no one was hurt.

Ouch... I'm guessing you'll be cooling the wort down before pouring into a carboy from now on... I've never used a glass carboy, I chose to go with the better bottles. I'm too clumsy for glass. I suspect that would have been a melty pile of mess if you were doing that.

What PassedPawn said. Condolences.

I think you can save that...just pitch the yeast right in the tub. RDWHAHB.

That's an expensive 5 gallons of beer you didn't even get to drink! I've done something similar, and lost a batch and a carboy... make sure you post in the broken carboy thread also

I didn't know there was a broken carboy thread! haha.

Did you save any? I'm bummed reading this!!

Sorry dude. Another bright side: it at least happened before you'd patiently waited through fermentation. Cash is cash, but you never get that time back.

zeg said:

sorry dude. Another bright side: It at least happened before you'd patiently waited through fermentation. Cash is cash, but you never get that time back.

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+1000

That sucks.

divrguy said:

Did you save any? I'm bummed reading this!!

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Not from this running.

The first run of this batch gave me half a gallon of some blacker than black stuff. I'm fermenting it now, although it's slowed down (as it was done more than a few days ago) and I'm debating adding some honeywater to kickstart the ferment again. I took another run of the grain and got a 1.03 wort that I added sugar to (see: Odd Concoction thread). And that's got about 3/4 a gallon now.

All in all, just a loss but you live and you learn, right?

zeg said:

Sorry dude. Another bright side: it at least happened before you'd patiently waited through fermentation. Cash is cash, but you never get that time back.

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Indeed. I'm patient but that would have been a terrible loss. Two hours compared to two weeks!

Hence plastic

This is the concoction from what I had left (above).


Above is the first runnings of what I'm calling olympus superstout. I took it from the first runnings of what was spilled. The rest was supposed to be regular old stout but spilled so I had to make the concoction.