Worst brew day ever.

I Gotta vent to someone...the wife won't understand. Completely plagued with f!@# ups today. Got to a really late start after doing a tune up on SWMBO's car, Broke hydrometer #4 (for 2012), didn't look at the weather and was completely unaware of the imminent thunderstorms, 60 minute mash on the hefeweizen turned into a 180minute mash due to the rain delay, and as of now I just added 4oz. of fuggles(planned for my hoppy red ale) to my hefe instead of the 2oz of hallertaur. Hopefully I get my s#$t together for batch #2 next!

The long mash and the hop sub won't hurt a bit.

I've had the rain actually start coming down into my open boil pot. That sucks.

[edit] 4 oz instead of 2 isn't good.

Lol thanks for the words of encouragement, its an 11gal batch so hopefully it wont be ridiculously hoppy for a hefe.

Ya never know, might turn out to be the best beer you have brewed to date .

The next brew will go better.

Dude. If you've broken 4 hydrometers this year you seriously need to take a step back and figure out a way to simplify your brew day. Best of luck and I'm sure the beer will turn out great.

EllisTX said:

Dude. If you've broken 4 hydrometers this year you seriously need to take a step back and figure out a way to simplify your brew day. Best of luck and I'm sure the beer will turn out great.

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If I broke four hydrometers I think I'd invest in a plastic one.

I brew pretty often, so I'm sure the odds aren't in my favor for suicidal hydrometers. Do they actually make plastic ones? I've never seen em at the LHBS or online.

I didn't know about plastic hydrometers either. I just found this link:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/coopers-plastic-hydrometer-271883/

PS. I switched to a refractometer after breaking 2 hydrometers.

Switch to a refractometer my friend! The best investment I've ever made, the hyrometer stays hidden away until I need to take a FG reading