My friend is a total brewing disaster. He can't seem to follow instructions while brewing, especially if he's a little tipsy.
He complained that his first brew was watered down (NB Irish red kit), But didn't realize it was watered down because he left 2" of malt extract in the bottle "I can't get it out so I don't need it" (it never occurred to him to put hot water in the bottle and swish it around"... His fermentation lagged like crazy because he didn't aerate the wort (not following instructions ) and he kept opening the bucket. He also got a little drunk and decided to add water. Watered down beer indeed! I asked him what he got for his OG - blank stare, no hydrometer.
We've been trying the shepherd him a little by having him come to our brew sessions, this past session I asked him to grab me my sanitizer tray (I use a wallpaper tray filled with starsan to sanitize my long spoons etc) filled with sanitizer ... It came back with PBW in it. He didn't know the difference, said PBW is a sanitizer right?
He'd been sanitizing his bottles no rinse, in PBW. Lulz,