mammothkraken
Well-Known Member
Saturday I brewed an Altbier on my back porch. Boiled 7 gallons in a 7.5 gallon pot and had to keep the heat higher than usual due to the very cold weather outside. Well of course I got a wicked boil over the second I walked away, now mind you I watched this thing for the first 40 minutes of a 90 minute boil. The second I walked away it went over...
Shortly thereafter I sanitized my carboy and placed upside down in my drying rack and apparently it wasn't very stable because it fell over and crushed my hydrometer.
At the end of the boil I was transferring my wort into the carboy and was down to the last 1/2 - 1 gallon of beer when my 2.5 year old son tested his luck and threw a pbw powder covered spoon in the pot...
needless to say not my best brew day recently.
Anybody else had some doozies?
Shortly thereafter I sanitized my carboy and placed upside down in my drying rack and apparently it wasn't very stable because it fell over and crushed my hydrometer.
At the end of the boil I was transferring my wort into the carboy and was down to the last 1/2 - 1 gallon of beer when my 2.5 year old son tested his luck and threw a pbw powder covered spoon in the pot...
needless to say not my best brew day recently.
Anybody else had some doozies?