Driveway Pilsner

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Long story short, I coated my driveway with 11 gallons of wort.

Any suggestions of what to do with 2 packs of S-05 yeast. It's already hydrated. Nearest LHBS is 40 miles away, and my burner is out of commission for the time being. [emoji22][emoji84][emoji90]

Silver lining in that it fell away from where I was standing...

My condolences. It might be time to get the mop and then order a sturdier burner for those 10g batches.

Dude that sucks. If you can be bothered you could get some preservative free apple juice and make cider.

Mason jar for yeast covered with water. Refrigerate. I use bottled or distilled water.

eddiewould said:

Dude that sucks. If you can be bothered you could get some preservative free apple juice and make cider.

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That's what I was just thinking. My wife is at the store right now. She can grab 5 gallons for me.

Hoppity said:

Mason jar for yeast covered with water. Refrigerate. I use bottled or distilled water.

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Good idea.

What burner was that? My condolences on your loss. I'd hose it down before the bees show up.

Pour the yeast on the driveway wort. Open fermentation taken to the extreme!

Dude, that sucks... it makes me almost tear up. Almost.

singybrue said:

Pour the yeast on the driveway wort. Open fermentation taken to the extreme!

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I'd just let it be a "lambic" and collect some wild yeasts.

Thetonymartin said:

Welp, now what?
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Long story short, I coated my driveway with 11 gallons of wort.

Any suggestions of what to do with 2 packs of S-05 yeast. It's already hydrated. Nearest LHBS is 40 miles away, and my burner is out of commission for the time being. [emoji22][emoji84][emoji90]

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Do every home brewer a favour and post the make and model of that burner. You might be saving sombody else the loss or injury. Good to hear you avoided the latter, my condolences on the loss... as for the yeast, I agree with the cover with distilled water cover and refrigerate, use it as soon as you recover.

Friend just had the same accident...a true lawn mower beer! His turkey fryer had the curved legs. Mine have the angled straight legs and seem stronger...I hope.

at least you didn't get burnt! sucks though, my neighborhood would still be echoing my obsinities.

blichmann!

Runyanka said:

at least you didn't get burnt! sucks though, my neighborhood would still be echoing my obsinities.

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I have to agree, that could have been one nasty burn.

I've been putting off getting a burner, after seeing this I'm firmly in the Blichmann camp, if I go with a gas burner. I'm really thinking electric because I don't like the idea of brewing in my messy garage, I can setup an electric rig in my slightly less messy basement.

Thanks everyone for the condolences. I am very lucky it didn't fall toward me.

bigdaddybrew said:

Friend just had the same accident...a true lawn mower beer! His turkey fryer had the curved legs. Mine have the angled straight legs and seem stronger...I hope.

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It was a burner from a 'Cajun Injecter' turkey fryer kit with curved (bent) legs.
It was fine with the 7.5 gallon pot that came with it, and seemed to be okay with the 15 gallon aluminum pot (11.4 gallon boil). It must have been from the extra weight from the immersion chiller and chiller water that caused the collapse. This was the first full boil after the boil test with this new pot.

actionjackson905 said:

Do every home brewer a favour and post the make and model of that burner. You might be saving sombody else the loss or injury. Good to hear you avoided the latter, my condolences on the loss... as for the yeast, I agree with the cover with distilled water cover and refrigerate, use it as soon as you recover.

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It was just like this one, except it has a timer that I disconnect.

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I once lost 15 gal of imperial stout mash on my brother-in-law's garage floor... That was a sad day... And a PITA to clean up!

You can dedicate your next batch to commemorate the experience and call it "Driveway Pilsner" What a story mate!

Condolences on your loss.
-wouldn't have been a pilsner with US-05 yeast, though.

What actually failed and why? The burner stand looks a bit whimpy for the amount of wort you had on it. Did rivets fail, or metal break, or what?


H.W.

For the yeast, mix up some extract and make a starter, or put it in a sanitized jar and store it in the fridge until you can get some extract.

your burner looks like an oversized candle holder.......sorry for your loss, hopefully nobody buys one of these burners. Sometimes cheap is not good.

I physically stood on the display model of my burner before I bought it. It was $25 at Academy sports.

It's $29 now. Anyway, good cheap burner.

http://m.academy.com/shop/Product_1...=Black&N=20001+10001&Ntt=Burner+stand&Ntk=All

Damn that sucks. Time to upgrade.

1977Brewer said:

I physically stood on the display model of my burner before I bought it. It was $25 at Academy sports.

It's $29 now. Anyway, good cheap burner.

http://m.academy.com/shop/Product_1...=Black&N=20001+10001&Ntt=Burner+stand&Ntk=All

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What size batches are you boiling on that?

Owly055 said:

What actually failed and why? The burner stand looks a bit whimpy for the amount of wort you had on it. Did rivets fail, or metal break, or what?





H.W.

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The metal leg bent. All the screws and holes are intact.

RishoBrew said:

You can dedicate your next batch to commemorate the experience and call it "Driveway Pilsner" What a story mate!

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That's my plan, once I get the burner fixed/ replaced.

I would beat that burner with a sledge while crying my pain away...

Thetonymartin said:

What size batches are you boiling on that?

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5.5 gallon, 7.5-8 preboil volume. I imagine it would handle twice that, because I weigh about twenty gallons.

Yes I just expressed my weight in gallons.

Thetonymartin said:

Welp, now what?

I coated my driveway with 11 gallons of wort.

Any suggestions of what to do with 2 packs of S-05 yeast.

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toss it on the driveway?

If you have a shop, consider fabricating a new burner stand without the pretty curved legs

This is one of the best burners out there. They come under different names, but this thing is sturdy as heck and has a banjo burner. This one is at Canadian Tire here in Canada.

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