Disconnect your STC-1000 on your freezer/fermentation chamber to cold-crash. DON'T DO THAT!
Disconnect your STC-1000 on your freezer/fermentation chamber to cold-crash. DON'T DO THAT!
How come?
I am reading this thread. I am going to post something I've done that is not really a problem but is instead a mistake I make because I haven't thought enough about what I'm doing.
Don't do that.
Drop your floating thermometer into your wort. Friggin torpedo WILL find the bottom of the pot and break, spilling it's lead cargo and ruining your brew day.
Don't do that!
Yea; What @Hello said...
On your first all grain batch have as many per hour as an extract batch and sit down on the couch during the boil (with alarm set) and have SAMBO wake u when she gets home from her mom's.
Realize u r 2.5 hrs into boil and down to 3.5 gal but only hop addition u missed is flame out but u can't find it anywhere.
Stick ic in there and cool anyway and figure I'll top up with water when it chills and dry hop when I find that bag.
Come back in 20 min to see that the recirculating ice water from dirty cooler (read leaves and other junk) is now pumping into bk and u r back up to 5.5 gal.
Call it a night and go to bed. Have to b up for work in the am. Cut your losses and put the lid on and figure I'll clean this up tomorrow.
When u come home for lunch find missing hops in fridge and start thinking.
Tell SWMBO to turn burner on .5 hr b4 u get home and get it to a boil, get home, add hops flame out chill and pitch.
Don't tell anyone that drinks it how it was made. It's actually very good and I just tell them it's a batch I made a few mistakes on and don't think I can reproduce it.
Forget to connect false bottom of mash tun to exit valve...don't do that.
On your first all grain batch have as many per hour as an extract batch and sit down on the couch during the boil (with alarm set) and have SAMBO wake u when she gets home from her mom's.
Realize u r 2.5 hrs into boil and down to 3.5 gal but only hop addition u missed is flame out but u can't find it anywhere.
Stick ic in there and cool anyway and figure I'll top up with water when it chills and dry hop when I find that bag.
Come back in 20 min to see that the recirculating ice water from dirty cooler (read leaves and other junk) is now pumping into bk and u r back up to 5.5 gal.
Call it a night and go to bed. Have to b up for work in the am. Cut your losses and put the lid on and figure I'll clean this up tomorrow.
When u come home for lunch find missing hops in fridge and start thinking.
Tell SWMBO to turn burner on .5 hr b4 u get home and get it to a boil, get home, add hops flame out chill and pitch.
Don't tell anyone that drinks it how it was made. It's actually very good and I just tell them it's a batch I made a few mistakes on and don't think I can reproduce it.
Not as bad as seeing some kind of bug surfacing every few minutes during your rolling boil.....
Here in Southern California, we do have TONS of brown widows, though.
On the positive side, they've been edging out the black widow population, and while a brown widow bite will ruin your day, it's less dangerous than the black widow bit.
On the negative side, the brown widows seem to be VERY plentiful. More plentiful than black widows where. I can seriously go through the yard on any summer day and find at least 10 of them to kill, underneath lawn furniture, kids' climbing toys, etc.
If you see a brown widow, you'll know by the web and egg sac. The webs are unorganized (not like an orb-weaving spider) and the egg sacs are small, off-white, and look extremely spiky...
Not charging the drill battery before milling grains but trying to mill anyway. Got about halfway through and it died. Had to wait all day just to mill the rest of the grain and the brew day was postponed for a week.
Don't do that.
I need a better drill.
Go down the brew room, 6/3, to see if the next day is the 7th day of dry hopping an IPA or in two more days. Notes say the dry hop was on 5/18.
Don't do that. Keep notes taped to computer monitor.
I just put all the pertinent info on a strip of duct tape on the carboy, then I don't have to go looking for notes
There's a reason I like corded drills...
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