ghpeel
Well-Known Member
So I was helping a friend brew up a pumpkin ale yesterday (Yuri's Thunderstruck!). The kettle was bubbling away on the stove top, and she reached up above the stove to grab some spices out of the cabinet. CRASH -- all of a sudden she's screaming and I see a canister of chicken bullion cubes bobbing around in the boil wort!
I scream too and grab the top of the little plastic jar as it bobs up, narrowly avoiding burning my fingers. All I can think about is "I wonder how chicken-flavored pumpkin ale tastes?"
We check the plastic jar, and it actually doesn't look like any liquid got inside it. All the little bullion cubes were dry. WHEW. (However, a small part of me wanted to try the chicken-pumpkin experiment...)
Thinking we're all in the clear now that disaster has been avoided, I'm joking around and having a good time when I go to move the digital probe thermometer base that's magnetized and affixed to the range hood above the kettle, when PLOP, the damn thing falls into the brew pot!!!
So we begin a second round of screaming and I eventually snatch the thing out of the pot. This is one of those probe thermometers where the probe can survive anything, but the display base has an LCD display like a calculator.
The thing makes sort of a final groan sound, and the display starts rotating through all the colors of the rainbow....
So now, we got 5 gallons of pumpkin ale that MAY BE flavored with chicken bullion and MAY BE contaminated with whatever cancer-causing agents can come out of boiling an LCD display, a circuit board and a AA battery....
So we're gonna RDWHAHB and see how it turns out, but I'm hoping that this burned through all my murphey's luck for the year.
I scream too and grab the top of the little plastic jar as it bobs up, narrowly avoiding burning my fingers. All I can think about is "I wonder how chicken-flavored pumpkin ale tastes?"
We check the plastic jar, and it actually doesn't look like any liquid got inside it. All the little bullion cubes were dry. WHEW. (However, a small part of me wanted to try the chicken-pumpkin experiment...)
Thinking we're all in the clear now that disaster has been avoided, I'm joking around and having a good time when I go to move the digital probe thermometer base that's magnetized and affixed to the range hood above the kettle, when PLOP, the damn thing falls into the brew pot!!!
So we begin a second round of screaming and I eventually snatch the thing out of the pot. This is one of those probe thermometers where the probe can survive anything, but the display base has an LCD display like a calculator.
The thing makes sort of a final groan sound, and the display starts rotating through all the colors of the rainbow....
So now, we got 5 gallons of pumpkin ale that MAY BE flavored with chicken bullion and MAY BE contaminated with whatever cancer-causing agents can come out of boiling an LCD display, a circuit board and a AA battery....
So we're gonna RDWHAHB and see how it turns out, but I'm hoping that this burned through all my murphey's luck for the year.