Took my 10 gallon setup to a friend's house on Sunday, 10gl cooler, 2 stainless pots, rims, pumps, brew panel.
This was supposed to be dog and pony show for his SWMBO.
Mashed, boiled, and into fermentor.
Got paged from work and had to leave. I repeatedly made by friend swear he'd clean up, at least the equipment.
I wasn't planning on brewing until this Saturday, so I didn't bother going back to for the equipment.
Last night I got a call from him. "Dude, you need to come over." And he sounded like he was in distress. So I asked what happened, and during a moment of silence from his part I could hear his SWMBO yelling at him in the background.
I got there and found him very near the point where she was going to castrate him.
We went to the garage, and I could smell a faint foul smell in the air. I asked "you forgot to put the trash with the spent grain out, didn't you?"
He shook his head side to side, pointed at the equipment and said, "I didn't clean up. She came over, opened the mash tun to see what was smelling. I haven't heard the end of it."
So we proceeded to start the clean up. The BK, was fine, full of trub with the hops. Not bad.
Next, the MT. He held the plastic trash bag, I opened the lid... Wow, does that smell...
But wait! The is more!
Once I turned the MT to dump the spent grain into the bag, I almost fell backwards.
The most foul, rotting, fruity, sour, fecal-like smell came from the growling liquid at the oozed from the bottom of the MT.
I swear, I hard that gunk's angry growl at us for disturbing it from its deep sleep.
I swear, I never smelled anything like this. I'm sure of it. Two years ago, I was there when they took the septic tank out of my yard and hooked up the house to city sewer. Compared to that, I would've gladly gone into that tank and shoveled that stuff out myself rather than cleaning this MT.
Needless to say his SWMBO has completely banned him from picking up brewing in *her* house
At this moment, I have 2 heating sticks boiling water in the MT and I don't think that will completely do it. I may have to leave bleach solution in it overnight and then some.
To be honest, with all the work I think I'm going to have to rid the plastic wall of the cooler from that smell and bacteria, I seriously contemplating just buying another 10 gl cooler from Home Depot.
Lesson learned.
You've been warned.
DO NOT LET SPENT GRAIN ROT AWAY FOR 5 DAYS IN A HOT BASEMENT AT A PRETTY CONSTANT 85*F.
This was supposed to be dog and pony show for his SWMBO.
Mashed, boiled, and into fermentor.
Got paged from work and had to leave. I repeatedly made by friend swear he'd clean up, at least the equipment.
I wasn't planning on brewing until this Saturday, so I didn't bother going back to for the equipment.
Last night I got a call from him. "Dude, you need to come over." And he sounded like he was in distress. So I asked what happened, and during a moment of silence from his part I could hear his SWMBO yelling at him in the background.
I got there and found him very near the point where she was going to castrate him.
We went to the garage, and I could smell a faint foul smell in the air. I asked "you forgot to put the trash with the spent grain out, didn't you?"
He shook his head side to side, pointed at the equipment and said, "I didn't clean up. She came over, opened the mash tun to see what was smelling. I haven't heard the end of it."
So we proceeded to start the clean up. The BK, was fine, full of trub with the hops. Not bad.
Next, the MT. He held the plastic trash bag, I opened the lid... Wow, does that smell...
But wait! The is more!
Once I turned the MT to dump the spent grain into the bag, I almost fell backwards.
The most foul, rotting, fruity, sour, fecal-like smell came from the growling liquid at the oozed from the bottom of the MT.
I swear, I hard that gunk's angry growl at us for disturbing it from its deep sleep.
I swear, I never smelled anything like this. I'm sure of it. Two years ago, I was there when they took the septic tank out of my yard and hooked up the house to city sewer. Compared to that, I would've gladly gone into that tank and shoveled that stuff out myself rather than cleaning this MT.
Needless to say his SWMBO has completely banned him from picking up brewing in *her* house
At this moment, I have 2 heating sticks boiling water in the MT and I don't think that will completely do it. I may have to leave bleach solution in it overnight and then some.
To be honest, with all the work I think I'm going to have to rid the plastic wall of the cooler from that smell and bacteria, I seriously contemplating just buying another 10 gl cooler from Home Depot.
Lesson learned.
You've been warned.
DO NOT LET SPENT GRAIN ROT AWAY FOR 5 DAYS IN A HOT BASEMENT AT A PRETTY CONSTANT 85*F.
