Check your equipment or this could happen...

Had a big brewing FAIL last night while moving my mash cooler with my buddy - One of the handles busted (as seen here) and splat it all ended up on the garage floor.

I almost called it a night there, but with much grit I re-milled 16 more lbs of grain and started it all over again! Everything went off without a hitch after the disaster, but I thought i would share my story to save others from such grief.

Sk8

A single tear and back to work.

That sucks, glad you stuck it out though. Cheers.

Brutal. I feel your pain. Out of curiousity, why were you moving a full mash tun?

kombat said:

Brutal. I feel your pain. Out of curiosity, why were you moving a full mash tun?

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Long story short to start sparging. I started brewing myself so I put the cooler next to the kettle to dump the mash water in without having to carry it far and lift it. I normally keep the mash tun on a platform for sparging.

I'm hoping this brew will just be that much better because of the fail!

It's posts like this that make baby jesus cry. Glad you found the motivation to start over again!

I'd called it floor malting, mop it up into the tun and continue to mash it.

LabRatBrewer said:

I'd called it floor malting, mop it up into the tun and continue to mash it.

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I really did consider this, but I think the garage floor with engine oil and such might lead to some off flavors!

Could have been much worse.
You could have been mashing in the kitchen, or the somewhere else indoors.

processhead said:

Could have been much worse.
You could have been mashing in the kitchen, or the somewhere else indoors.

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I was chatting with a buddy that this happened to in his kitchen - it shorted out his dishwasher! Doh!