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I just had a ****ty brewing experience, and I had to come on here to vent about it.
I was brewing a Belgian golden strong, and all was going well. I was hitting my numbers, no boilovers, no problems whatsoever. So I get done with my 90 minute boil, and I have to carry my 5.5 gallons of 210 degree wort about 50 yards to my porch. So I enlist the help of my dad, and we both grab one handle on the kettle. about 3/4 of the way there I lose my grip on my handle and my kettle hits the ground, losing about 1.5 gallons of hot wort, some of which landed on my sandaled foot.
So now I have 2 problems, the burn on my foot, and my beer. And to make a long story short, after an extra hour, adding water and DME, Boiling for 15 minutes more, and icing down my foot I finally have 5 gallons of wort in the fermenter.
An interesting postscript to this story: I never drink while brewing.
I was brewing a Belgian golden strong, and all was going well. I was hitting my numbers, no boilovers, no problems whatsoever. So I get done with my 90 minute boil, and I have to carry my 5.5 gallons of 210 degree wort about 50 yards to my porch. So I enlist the help of my dad, and we both grab one handle on the kettle. about 3/4 of the way there I lose my grip on my handle and my kettle hits the ground, losing about 1.5 gallons of hot wort, some of which landed on my sandaled foot.
So now I have 2 problems, the burn on my foot, and my beer. And to make a long story short, after an extra hour, adding water and DME, Boiling for 15 minutes more, and icing down my foot I finally have 5 gallons of wort in the fermenter.
An interesting postscript to this story: I never drink while brewing.