Carboy Horror Story

20 years ago, during my first homebrewing stint, my brother-in-law showed up at my house with two 6.5 gallon glass carboys. "Hey, are you interested in these?" I obviously grabbed them.

A week or so later, I was considering going all-glass, so I called him up and asked him where he got them. "Oh, I went to my buddy's grandmother's farm to help him start moving her out, and we found this underground bomb shelter from the 50's out in the fields. There were at least 100 of them down there." Immediately I had visions of profit in my head!!!! I would call my local brew shop and sell them and be rich, rich, RICH!!!! So...I casually ask him if his buddy needed my help hauling them away, free of charge (great guy, ain't I?). He said "Naw, we dragged them out, lined them up, and used them for target practice."

Several homebrews later, I phoned my guy at the homebrew shop and asked him what he would have paid for the carboys. After doing the math, I cracked another brew.

I'm sorry, but your brother-in-law and his buddy were idiots on this one. I just cleaned out an old box full of MS-DOS computer manuals and made sure they weren't worth anything before I threw them away. If I saw a hundred glass jugs of any kind I would immediately think, "I wonder how much these are worth?"

Haha, but I bet that was one of the worst homebrews you've ever drank after talking to the brew shop.

Not to mention 100 carboy's worth of glass in a field, lovely place for young children to play lol.

WillPall said:

I just cleaned out an old box full of MS-DOS computer manuals and made sure they weren't worth anything before I threw them away.

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version 5 or 6.22?

zanemoseley said:

Not to mention 100 carboy's worth of glass in a field, lovely place for young children to play lol.

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burglar and gopher reppelant?

Whatever...that would have been fun as sh*t. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

funny, when I told my office-mate at work the next day, he forever after appended "the idiot" whenever he mentioned my brother-in-law. As in, "how's your brother in law the idiot?"

D8 ouch.... that was wince worthy.

mordantly said:

version 5 or 6.22?

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Totally version 5. I think we waited for Windows 3.1 instead of getting 6.2*. From what I could tell, it was worth more to me to dump them in the trash rather than try to sell.

WillPall said:

Totally version 5. I think we waited for Windows 3.1 instead of getting 6.2*. From what I could tell, it was worth more to me to dump them in the trash rather than try to sell.

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i would have given you $*trails off* for it!! 3.11 for workgroups was really a bastard son.