Big time bummer! But, the main question is: Was the beer salvaged?
How do people really know what Styrofoam tastes like? You hear it all the time .. tofu, rice cakes, puffed quinoa (is there such a thing?). Who has really eaten Styrofoam to know?
How do people really know what Styrofoam tastes like? You hear it all the time .. tofu, rice cakes, puffed quinoa (is there such a thing?). Who has really eaten Styrofoam to know?
I did a double-blind triangle test with two samples of styrofoam and one sample of rice cakes. Only 25% of participants could identify the unique sample.How do people really know what Styrofoam tastes like? You hear it all the time .. tofu, rice cakes, puffed quinoa (is there such a thing?). Who has really eaten Styrofoam to know?
I always blow out my IC using an adapter with my air compressor after brew day...
After a long brew day yesterday I went to blow out my IC and wasn't really paying attention that the inlet and outlet were pointing directly at ME! I caught my mistake about the same time I was hit with a short blast of water coming from my Jaded Hydra! No real harm but my shorts were soaked.
Have to admit it felt pretty good after a long, sweaty, hot day so maybe...DO THAT!
This brings up a good question that I have wondered.....do most folks try to blow or purge the cooling water from their IC lines...or just leave it there after use? I have a JaDed Hydra and it is hard to get the water out of the lines so I just leave it be. My cooling water is darn near like RO water so I don't have lots of mineral content that would tend to build up over time.
I used to turn it upside down and around and around to get the water out, or if I was adventurous I would boil it which would help expel some water but I had the compressor and adapter already and thought "why not".
I was just concerned the water would eventually cause problems but if you think about it, we all have copper water lines running through our house so...!
I used to turn it upside down and around and around to get the water out, or if I was adventurous I would boil it which would help expel some water but I had the compressor and adapter already and thought "why not".
I was just concerned the water would eventually cause problems but if you think about it, we all have copper water lines running through our house so...!
may make a policy of always using a wrench to verify tightness whenever swapping anything.
I just learned this lesson the hard way.
Bought a brand new keg, sanitised everything and filled it with beer. Assumed the gas post would be tight.
Don't do that. That's 5kg of CO2 stripping the ozone layer in my kegerator
Guilty.But if you live someplace cold and do not store your brewing gear in the house you probably should blow it out.
Good point about copper lines in our homes where water is in those lines 24/7.
Plus my water is quite mineral free...sounds like it should be ok to leave water in lines since nothing from inside those lines ever contacts the actual beer anyway.
Besides the issue of freezing, I am not fond of steamy water spitting out at me when I dunk the cooler in the hot boiling wort. So far, doing the upside-down twirl round and round thing works pretty well, seeing as I am too lazy to trot 100ft to the barn where the compressor is.
Guilty.
I left my old chiller outside with water in it this past winter. I wound up with a few pounds of scrap copper tubing.
I upgraded to the Hydra after that, so I came out on top.
Begin my brew day and thought I should clean my ball valve but changed my mind...you can always do that later. After brew day thought I'd break down my kettle and...yuck! I should have listened to the little dude in my ear telling me to clean that sucker!!
So...ignore the little dude in your ear? DON'T DO THAT!
I have cleaned it recently but didn't think it would get that dirty that quick. It's a high IBU and ABV IPA so I'm sure (hope!) it will be OK.
omg are you ok?
Don't Drink and Cook.
Don't Drink and Cook.
Hell, we'd never eat anything but pb&j if we followed that advice.
Ps the wine got bottled today, yay!
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