Check your equipment

edthefox · Jul 23, 2012

This past weekend I found an unwelcome visitor in my turkey fryer when I was setting up to brew. This was in my garage and I had some blocks of wood setting on it. When I removed the wood, I found this!

Moral of the story:
If you store things out in a dirty garage, be sure and check things before you grab them, or you my get something you didn't expect.
I could have easily grabbed her when I picked up the wood.

mike20793 · Jul 23, 2012

Wow! Is that a black widow? It's kinda hard to tell on my phone. That's nuts. Thanks for the reminder. Those kinds of basic safety tips are always a welcome sight in my opinion. I think you should name a beer after it!

Phantastik · Jul 23, 2012

Aaak! Kill it with fire!
Or move it outside or something. But finding that would creep me out.

sweed · Jul 23, 2012

How do you know its a female?

Inspiration for your next brews name? Spider Bite?

I hate spiders, glad we dont have those things up here. We just have to deal with stupid earwigs everywhere this time of year.

AnOldUR · Jul 23, 2012

I once found a dead mouse in the bucket I grind grain into.

Not sure how it got in there. The Barley Crusher was sitting on top with a .039 gap.

watersr · Jul 23, 2012

Gotta brew a schwarzbeir and call it Witwe

Misplaced_Canuck · Jul 23, 2012

Earlier this winter I was having trouble with a turkey fryer that was sooting & had a bad yellow flame... Turns out a small lizard had made the air mixer his home. Once he got out, everything was back to normal.

MC

RainyDay · Jul 23, 2012

I hope you're making an Imperial Black IPA and are going to call it the Black Widow.

ArcLight · Jul 23, 2012

>>I once found a dead mouse in the bucket I grind grain into.

Off Topic - It's AMAZING how small a hole a mouse can fit into.
Maybe store your gear inside a giant Hefty Bag.
The Black Widow would creep me out!
As for the Mouse , Hanta virus comes to mind.

Dan · Jul 23, 2012

Ewe! Chills run down my spine. Hate spiders. I once lived in the Mojave desert and after a very wet spring there were more bugs than normal including black widow spiders. Those fellows loved my garage, I bombed the garage with spray but they just kept returning. Very reslilant they are. Good luck!

ktblunden · Jul 23, 2012

sweed said:
How do you know its a female?

The male of the species looks nothing like that and is not poisonous. Only the females are black, grow to that size (and much larger), and have the prominent red hourglass. I live in the desert and there are probably hundreds of black widows in my garage and shed right now. It gives me the willies.

dlaramie08 · Jul 23, 2012

AnOldUR said:
I once found a dead mouse in the bucket I grind grain into.

Not sure how it got in there. The Barley Crusher was sitting on top with a .039 gap.

Well...how dead was it? 0.39 inches dead?

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