Was quite sleppy while bottling and misscalculated my priming sugar amount, resulting in a 2.9 co2 vol. Lets see if the bottles will hold the pressure...
LOL I just did this. I set my fridge to 4C so cold crash a yeast starter for decanting. I brewed today and set it in my fridge and set it for 18C but forgot to hit the power button to save. After reading your post I figured I'd check on mine which is when I noticed it. Fortunately it was caught early but still...it's been a long brew day...
Our first time brewing, we feared the foam and rinsed out the carboy with tap water in a moment of panic before transferring the wort. Everything turned out fine but we sure felt like idiots about half an hour later when we looked it up on here. Beer turned out fine and we learned to relax!
More recently, we had some friends over on brew day to show them how the brewing process works. While we were sitting around waiting for the mash to be over my husband was talking about a YouTube video/ad for StarSan he had seen where the inventor or CEO or someone was talking about how it was so safe you can drink it, and proceeded to replicate/test this by taking a full swig of it from the bottle... you can imagine how that one ended, he continued to taste it for the next week! Worst part is, we searched for the video that he was talking about later and never found it.
See a pattern here?
Oh man, I'm glad he was okay! I'm pretty sure the original stunt involved drinking the diluted StarSan solution, not the concentrate.
Set up my all-grain system and did 4 batches before figuring out I needed to calibrate the thermometers in the BK and MLT, after banging my head agaisnt a wall trying to figure out why I was having such issues hitting mash temps.
I also dumped all my grain into the MLT and started mash-in before noticing the bazooka screen sitting on the table on my last brew. Dumb dumb dumb.
There was a short while where my keezer maintained temperatures by manually cycling it once in the morning once in the evening. Kegs on one side, glass bottles on the hump. Let's just say things went poorly one day and that thing sat unplugged until my STC arrived in the mail a week later.I have also got my keezer down to 1 degree Fahrenheit.
Usually a facepalm is not used as a defensive position. Whatever works for you though. Glad to hear nobody got physically damaged.The young-buck brewer I was, I thought it would be a great fun time to bottle some of my batch in growlers. Well, little did I know this is a no-go. Massive, earth shattering explosions ensued. The best part you may ask? Oh, I'll tell you... I had them sitting in a cooler-that is until we needed the cooler for a grill-out. Sure enough, the very same day...KABOOM! Beer and glass all over the storage room...the carpeted storage room. Glass shards imbedded in the wall and everything... Needless to say, that was the first earth-moving ass-chewing i've gotten from my wife.
I continue to shoot myself in the foot using yeast energizer/ nutrient. Was making a big yeast starter in a 2000mL Erlenmeyer flask on the stove top and immediately after removing from the flames I tossed in the pre-measured amount of nutrient and energizer. Yet another science-fair volcano in my kitchen.
I continue to shoot myself in the foot using yeast energizer/ nutrient. Was making a big yeast starter in a 2000mL Erlenmeyer flask on the stove top and immediately after removing from the flames I tossed in the pre-measured amount of nutrient and energizer. Yet another science-fair volcano in my kitchen.
The young-buck brewer I was, I thought it would be a great fun time to bottle some of my batch in growlers. Well, little did I know this is a no-go. Massive, earth shattering explosions ensued. The best part you may ask? Oh, I'll tell you... I had them sitting in a cooler-that is until we needed the cooler for a grill-out. Sure enough, the very same day...KABOOM! Beer and glass all over the storage room...the carpeted storage room. Glass shards imbedded in the wall and everything... Needless to say, that was the first earth-moving ass-chewing i've gotten from my wife.
Interesting. I've been bottling in growlers on and off through my whole homebrewing career. I've only ever had one blow on me, and it was more the bottom let go about an inch and a half up. Ended up with a half-gallon of hefeweizen all over my kitchen floor. (I was in a small apartment and the cabinet under the sink doubled as my cellar.)
Sealed a keg lid at about 35 psi (first batch ever i believe). Reset to serving pressure then later hooked up gas connect to the liquid post by mistake. Beer backed up into the gas lines. Fortunately it didn't make it to the regulator body, but i did have to remove the lines for cleaning.
Not good for white dress shirts though or the ceiling... or the floor
I don't know man, that sounds a lot like the start of a homebrewer themed porno.
One very recent only a couple weeks ago, I was doing quick honey wheat extract kit my dad purchased at home (live in an apartment so its not feasible for me to use my propane burner at home) on an electric stove. While I was in the middle of the boil I was doing dishes as my way of bribing SWMBO to let me brew at home instead of having to go over to her parents (because I "always" break something or make a mess...). I had set one of the dishes to the side since it was too big to go in the dish drying rack, on a cork trivet (one of those things you set hot pans on to not melt your counters) so, wet dish on a cork trivet.
Fast forward to near end of boil and I have put most of the dishes away to make room on the counter, take boiling pot of wort off electric burner and place it on the wet cork trivet on the counter (cause I'm smart and wasn't going to melt the counter top). Add the rest of the LME to the pot, stir like crazy. Put the pot back on the stove, turn back around to do a few more dishes while the last couple minutes of the boil tick down. "Ah I'll dry off that trivet and put it away since I'm super smart and will make the kitchen look cleaner than when I started". No trivet... Why is the kitchen so smokey? There's no way the pot boiled over in only the course of 40 seconds...
Learned a lovely attribute of cork when it's wet it will stick to things, particularly when you pick the pot up and put it on the stove and the cork doesn't start on fire, it just smolders and fills your house with smoke. I'm sure if anyone was looking when I opened the door to our patio a huge plume of smoke came out and it looked like we had Cheech and Chong over for dinner. (wrote in my log book since the beer was very delicious, burn cork during boil)
I did this only on my mash tun. 160°+ water sprayed all over my bits and pieces. I never stripped off a pair of jeans so fast! And of course this happened in my driveway. Natch.
-ben
Interesting. I've been bottling in growlers on and off through my whole homebrewing career.
German pubs regularly send customers home with unfiltered bier in growlers (krug in German). Beer that continues to carb while it's in the krug... Never had one explode on me.
Left the ball valve open on a kettle while filling it in the kitchen.
My biggest brewing fear is to bump the valve and open it up right after finishing a beer.
Homebrewing taught me that there are three times in the process to watch for boil overs.
1) At the start of the boil, for hot break
2) When adding large amounts of hops
3) Every time I think it's safe to look away
Ran out of propane 20 minutes into my boil
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