Just pushed a stopper into my beer trying to put the airlock back in place for the first time. Cheers.
Been there. Done that. Beer was still awesome
Just pushed a stopper into my beer trying to put the airlock back in place for the first time. Cheers.
Get grains for a recipe... decide to round up to the nearest lb on every grain. Put them in the same bag. Don’t do that.
Decide to brew two batches in one weekend, and not check the weather forecast. Figured they would both be okay in swamp coolers with a fan trained on them. Got up over 80 that week. Then decide that your lager isn't taking off fast enough and add more slurry. Two REALLY nasty carboys later, as well as airlocks landing upwards of six feet from said carboys from super vigorous fermentations, and some nasty acetaldehyde going on, has me planning on turning my spare bedroom into a fermentation room with an ac unit and my temp controller from the kegerator. Yeah, don't do that. Both of them are salvageable but not what I was planning on.
Why not? Unless something really strong and you only intended to use something like .25 lb.
Once, my recipe called for 1.17 of one type of grain and 1.9 of another and down the list. I just got 2 lbs of everything... accidentally put it all in the same bag. Threw the balance of the beer all off. It was OK... just not what I intended to make.
I've done that too. Beer turned out WAY too roasty for what I was going for. Didn't realize it until the day after I bought it and went to mill the grains.
I ordered $2500 worth of equipment without telling my wife (in fairness i tried to tell her). It was delivered and set up this week while she was out of town.
If you don't hear from me ever again, don't do that.
I'm just glad you got to it before the porch pirates did! I would never have anything delivered to my house.
Don't kid yourself, porch pirates know very well that pickins' are richer in the better neighborhoods. They're brazen and dishonest, not stupid.I don’t live in the hood or near mass transit so we’re pretty good.
So she saw it... I’m still alive. I guess the real test comes later on tonight...
Why i don't keg ... just sayin'View attachment 574212
When preparing to do an under pressure transfer to the keg, open the bottom port instead of racking port. Don’t do that.
Nothin wrong with some probiotics and a healthy gut...Not paying attention and pour some of the yeast in the bottom of the bottle into your glass and proceed to drink said yeast. Woke up this morning and ripped a huge one that the kids swear they smelled in the other room. Don't do that, unless you want some alone time, lol
Lol, that's what I said! My wife had the opinion that the probiotics were rotten, and left the room for about 45 minutes...Nothin wrong with some probiotics and a healthy gut...
Not paying attention and pour some of the yeast in the bottom of the bottle into your glass and proceed to drink said yeast.
I ordered $2500 worth of equipment without telling my wife (in fairness i tried to tell her). It was delivered and set up this week while she was out of town.
If you don't hear from me ever again, don't do that.
Did you survive the weekend?
Not paying attention and pour some of the yeast in the bottom of the bottle into your glass and proceed to drink said yeast. Woke up this morning and ripped a huge one that the kids swear they smelled in the other room. Don't do that, unless you want some alone time, lol
Not paying attention and pour some of the yeast in the bottom of the bottle into your glass and proceed to drink said yeast. Woke up this morning and ripped a huge one that the kids swear they smelled in the other room. Don't do that, unless you want some alone time, lol
So the wife decided to save a couple of bucks by buying discount garbage bags. After mashing I dump my grains which were 10 pounds before soaking into said bag. I was brewing in the back yard and my garbage can is just over the fence in the front. So I walk up to my gate which we keep padlocked so the dogs don’t escape and realize I forgot the key. I look at the aforementioned discount garbage bag full of hot, wet grain and say myself “I’ll just swing it over the fence and go through the house to the front yard and put it in the can”....Don’t do that. Anyone have a good method of picking 10 pounds of grain out of grass ?
Any kernel of grain that falls out of my mill my lab devours before it hits the ground. She usually gets some cooled mash grains as well.If there were no hops in the mash, scoop it up some and then let the dogs eat the rest. [emoji6] Whenever I’m done with the mash, I’ll take a couple of spoonfuls and put it out on the driveway and my dogs eat it right up. I think now they kind of expect it when I’m brewing.
So the wife decided to save a couple of bucks by buying discount garbage bags. After mashing I dump my grains which were 10 pounds before soaking into said bag. I was brewing in the back yard and my garbage can is just over the fence in the front. So I walk up to my gate which we keep padlocked so the dogs don’t escape and realize I forgot the key. I look at the aforementioned discount garbage bag full of hot, wet grain and say myself “I’ll just swing it over the fence and go through the house to the front yard and put it in the can”....Don’t do that. Anyone have a good method of picking 10 pounds of grain out of grass ?
So far so good.
Obviously she's deep in denial.
Anyone have a good method of picking 10 pounds of grain out of grass ?
So far so good.
Obviously she's deep in denial.
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