Oh. I thought you were going to say you got some sort of nasty infection, threw out the whole batch and had to burn your equipment. The fire department came and put it out before it was done burning so somehow now you still have an infection. Ten bottles shy? Could have been worse. You may next time want to overestimate your final volume of wort to account for any losses due to absorption by fruit additions. Although they've got a bit of water in them if you're using frozen berries you've pasteurized yourself, I have a feeling they still absorb some beer.
When I siphon, I slowly lower the siphon into the beer as the level goes down and start to tip the fermenter a little earlier than I need to so I'm always ahead of the liquid height inside the fermenter but gently, as not to stir anything up.
When I siphoned my last batch of wort to my fermenter after whirlpooling, it was a mess too. I was using flyguy's $3 siphon but I didn't get a good clamp on the middle hose so liquid was coming out of there and getting into my bucket right where my mouth just was, it was spraying all over the place (thankfully I was in the garage for this one) and getting all over my hands before going in the bucket too. I had to restart at least once or twice. It was a mess. But everything turned out fine, and I still made beer. We all have hiccups, it's what we take away from them that's important. You don't learn as much when everything goes smooth.
