vicratlhead51
Well-Known Member
Yep my first Homebrew related injury. I dropped my 5gal carboy last night, tried to catch it with my left hand but was too slow and ended up sticking my hand in a pile of broken glass. It looks like a wild animal got a hold of my hand. 6 stitches in my index finger and 3 in my ring finger along with about a dozen other smaller cuts. On the bright side the entire batch was bottled already and I did it while cleaning the carboy, so I didn't loase a drop of beer! The beer I made was a mild maple brown ale and is one of the brews I've been most excited about since I started doing it. Bad part is now I need to buy a new carboy Think maybe I'll go with 2 2.5 gal ones insstead of the 5 gal since it was a little hard to handle and I can be a clutz. I figure that way when I wanna do a fruit beer I can do two flavors with one batch (I'm not huge on fruit beers but SWMBO likes them)