I'm lost ... what happened?
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So I am so glad that I spent the little bit of money on an over 6 gallon container. Glass carboy shattered and the pic explains it all. Reracked in a bucket and hoping for the best.
The op is going to simultaneously poison himself by infected beer while drinking shards of glass...
In all seriousness to the OP, how did the carboy break inside the tub?
I was doing my first parti-gyle and have two 6.5 gallon glass carboys - went to put the barleywine (4 gallons - 2 packs of SA 05) in my fermentation chamber (closet - only place I am allowed to keep my fermenting beer) when I set it down in the plastic container and bam-chug-drain-**%&#$. I think it hit the corner just right. I racked using my auto-siphon and a fine mesh strainer in to a sanitized bucket. I am not so much worried about the glass as when I move to secondary I will siphon above the trube/hop/glass mess (probably end up with only 3 gallons of beer) my main concern is that the plastic container holding my beer was rinsed out with water the day before but nowhere near sanitized.... I checked this morning and It is fermenting along with no bad smells so I am hoping for the best.
I will be going all plastic from now on.
So you dropped it?
I think it hit corner first and that was the end of that.
so you banged it around.
So you dropped it?
2 people who will realize the fragility of carboys only if and when it happens to themselves...
It looks like it could have been a ton worse nattron, your title says it all.
I just switched to better bottles from glass carboys, and I couldn't be happier.
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So I am so glad that I spent the little bit of money on an over 6 gallon container. Glass carboy shattered and the pic explains it all. Reracked in a bucket and hoping for the best.
E-Mursed said:Grow a pair and start fermenting in kegs.
That would be safe.
E-Mursed said:Damn straight....130psi before they blow.
Try that with your glass carboy, bucket, or better bottle.
Now all I need is some kegs I can buy for the right price.
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