Homebrew Fail

I've never had a bad day brewing until this last Saturday.

I took a week of vacation and some plans fell through, so i decided to brew this weekend instead.

Everything was going great. Hit my strike temp, doing a little cleaning up and getting ready to sit back and have a beer.

Then my dog, who was attached to a long leash in the front yard decided to investigate what was going on. The dog got wrapped up in the canopy, pulled the canopy and my two tier system all down into a heap of destruction. As I started to clean up, I thought "Nobody would believed this", so I took a few pics.

After reviewing the damage report, we only lost the floating thermometer from the HLT and a few of the valve handles were bent, but still workable.

Anyway, I cleaned up and set back up while my friend went back to LHBS and got a more grains. Of course his van over heated on the way there and the owner had to help him out. Many Thanks Ray!

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My deepest condolences......

How's the dog? No hot mash bath I hope.

I'll bet your dog was freeeaked out. Is he ok? Brew equipment can be repaired.

Amazingly the dog escaped being hit by the HLT or the boiling water inside.

ALF said:

Amazingly the dog escaped being hit by the HLT or the boiling water inside.

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How about the boot?

you weren't sitting in that chair when this happened, were you?!

ALF said:

Amazingly the dog escaped being hit by the HLT or the boiling water inside.

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yay! Then I am sorry for your equipment loss, but happy for your little friend.

I strongly suspect your dog will never go near the canopy or brew rig again. Single incident fear-based learning has a survival factor.

How did the replacement batch go?

ALF said:

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Devastating...

Glad everyone's okay... And that you still decided to brew!

Bummer. Could have been worse though. Glad no one got scalded.

That is EPIC! How long did it take to get your foot out of your dog's arse?

Man i am so sorry i would have cried for days. So did the replacement brew come out any better?

I cried a little just looking at those pictures. It is like looking at a car wreck. I just can't take my eyes away. Sweet sweet wort... RIP

I would be a liar if I said giving the dog the boot right after this happened didn't cross my mind. Instead I opted to just get the dog away from ground zero. In fact, after I cooled off and got everything back up and running, I brought the offending beast back out...with a much shorter rope this time. There must be something wrong with me...LOL.

Yep. Got back up, dusted off and kept on brewing. I currently have 5.5 gal of Kolsch wort safely tucked away in the fermentation fridge @ 60-62 F and churning away nicely.

I'd like to hear the dogs side of the story.


Something like, hey man there was this really great smelling shiny thing that was within my zone and the human didn't tell me not to investigate. Coulda burnt my butt off, think I'll sue the bastard!

That totally sucks.

BAD DOG!

Wow, when my dog knocks something off the coffee table it scares the bejeezus out of him, your dogs eyes must have been bugging out of his head! trying to run, but his rope was pulling the whole enchilada down behind him!

Wow. That is some kind of horrible, that.

I couldn't be mad at that dog, though.

Isn't this the point where the "beer namers" start tossing names out?

I had a similar experience with a leashed dog knocking over a table that had my 5# CO2 tank with a dual body regulator on it. Luckily, only the tank fill gauge got a bit messed up. That thing is fairly useless anyway.

We should include "leashed dogs" on the list of safety concerns

ok, I'll bite: "My damned dog knocked my canopy and brew-rig over and still survived my foot in his ass Kolsch"

Second chance kolsch
Dog Replant kolsch
That's all i got for now

I would be very pissed. Either you did something really bad earlier on or you have one hell of a good karma shipment coming to you in the mail.

"Kennel Kolsch" or something similar. "Goin' to the Kennel Kolsch." I like me some alliteration.

This is why I have cats.

Glad to hear you even went on to continue brewing.

Bad Dog Beer? Canine Killed the Kolsch? It's hot, I'm tired, that's all I got.

go ahead and bottle it, the beer will be fine.

BrewsCampbell said:

This is why I have cats.

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I have a cat also, it sooooo cute when they hop up on the bar and do the "rub-up-on-the-tap-handle-and-empty-a-full-keg-onto-the-floor-in-the-middle-of-the-night" thing.

I should have eaten the little bastard for that one.

Between the OP and Az we may have the start of some good Chinese food, or horrible Korean food.

Hund Haus Kolsch - He looks like a good boy.

I just hope the pup wasn't hurt!