RobWalker
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Bradinator said:Beer is some resilient stuff. Its resistant to human stupidity.
Hahah, great wisdom! I'll remember this for years to come
Bradinator said:Beer is some resilient stuff. Its resistant to human stupidity.
I made a phone dog ale. Talking to the wife on the phone while stirring the yeast in with one hand and petting the dog with the other... plop goes the phone , I reached in and grabbed it out....ran out to the car for my cell (I didnt hang up on you Honey) got back in the house and the dog was drinking out of the bucket. aaaaaaaa I hung up on the wife. But the beer turn out fine. Make a mistake all the time. this is a good laugh thread. Cheers
I made a phone dog ale. Talking to the wife on the phone while stirring the yeast in with one hand and petting the dog with the other... plop goes the phone , I reached in and grabbed it out....ran out to the car for my cell (I didnt hang up on you Honey) got back in the house and the dog was drinking out of the bucket. aaaaaaaa I hung up on the wife. But the beer turn out fine. Make a mistake all the time. this is a good laugh thread. Cheers
OK....
Back when I first started I had a recipe kit arrive that I was planning to brew on a Sunday. On Saturday night I went out bar hopping with some friends and, well, I don't remember anything past around 9:00 that night. No clue how I got home, what time I got home, nothing.
Woke up on Sunday morning to see a carboy of DIPA happily bubbling away.
Most of my brew gear was still in the closet, I had only brought out the absolute bare necessities to get the job done. In particular, my bottle of star san and the bucket that I mix it in were still sitting right where I had left them, and bone dry. Who knows what I did as far as sanitation goes? Probably just rinsed things under the kitchen faucet. If that.
To this day, I'm still wishing I could figure out how to make a beer that tasted as good as that one did.
Have you not seen Beerfest? You must get as hammered as your were that night to fully remember everything you did in that process. Remember to write it down this time though
This thread has given me so much hope.
I had four hours of sleep last night, worked a 10 hour shift, helped my sister move some furniture around, and then decided to bottle my beer.
I added the priming sugar, bottled, cleaned but didn't sanitize my fermenter (I used an unsanitized spoon to scrape all the dead yeast and gunk out of the fermenter.) Then sat down to have another home beer.
I then realized that I accidentally added two times the amount of priming sugar to my batch. Oh crap! So I ran downstairs, poured all the bottles back into my fermenter, and now I guess I'm going to wait until that ferments out.
Hopefully it doesn't become infected/oxidized it seems like a great hefeweizen.
just bottled my first batch so i dont know how it
turned out yet but i'm hopeful... heres what i did wrong in the first batch:
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-accidently pushed down on the autosiphon without a hose attached and sprayed the cabinets
just bottled my first batch so i dont know how it turned out yet but i'm hopeful... heres what i did wrong in the first batch:
-didn't cool the wort properly
-didnt rack from the brew kettle to the carboy, just funneled it in unfiltered
-poured the wart into a "premeasured" carboy full of water
-tried to pour 5.5 gallons of liquid into a 5 gallon carboy (see about with improperly racking and already pouring water into the carboy according to the recipe i used)
-accidently pushed down on the autosiphon without a hose attached and sprayed the cabinets
-dropped my hydrometer in the carboy and let it sit through fermentation
-pitched the yeast very late (took a long time to cool the wort/water mixture)
-splattered the cabinets trying to clean my carboy the first time with that useless brush
when i bottled i noticed the beer had a nice color to it, a little light for a porter however.
i tried a sip of it and knew it wasnt going to be ready but it did seem very watery, could just be my mind and the lack of carbonation playing tricks on me, we shall find out in a couple weeks.
starting my first all grain batch tomorrow, hopefully that goes a little smoother haha
I had a boil over on the kitchen stove which turned out to be the best thing ever. All because my wife banished me from brewing inside and bought me a 10 gallon kettle and burner.
Boru said:So while newish (been brewing for 5 years) I brew between 80-120 gallons a year so I figure that qualifies me to throw a couple good screw ups out there. My friend and I who brew together most of the time are actually more concerned when things go smoothly then when we screw up... c'est la vie.
First PM batch was an Imperial Stout. I hadn't read Deathbrewers thread on PM but was using a similar set up... however, I had a friend hold the bag while pouring sparge water over the grains. We took turns... sparging took a solid hour with a lot of swearing and sweating. A lot of squeezing too.
That same batch I aged on bourbon soaked oak chips and put them in secondary. I never took a gravity reading before moving to secondary but had let it sit for 3 weeks in Primary and figured I was good. I did take a reading before bottling (4 months later) and it was a little high, but I attributed that to tannins from the squeezing or the wood chips. I bottled using the normal amount of sugar. After the first gusher at 3 weeks later I was convinced I had a gusher bug. then checked my notes and realized nope... just some over carbonated beer. I just threw it in the freezer for an hour before drinking and they all tasted fine.
Droped a hydrometer in a English brown ale. Mercifully, it was sanitized. Batch was delicious
Then there was the extract Dirty stove tripel. My buddy's girlfriend came into the kitchen to ask a question at the exact wrong moment, we both turned around to answer her and in the 5 seconds our backs were turned it boiled over. That was a PITA to clean up.
Then my personal favorite. Brewing an American Brown ale I've had one of the smoothest brew days ever, with a friend of mine who is learning the process and wanted to observe. The wort is cooled and in the carboy, I pitch the yeast and aerate it. Then I slap the sanitized bung on the carboy... and the bung falls right through and into the carboy. My friend and I look at it bobbing up and down in the beer and I say "Hmm... I've dropped all manner of things into the beer before but never the bung." It was 9 at night and the LHBS didn't open till 10 the next day. I slapped some sanitized aluminum foil over top of it and ran over to get a lipped bung from the LHBS. I go up to the counter to tell them what happens and get half way through saying "The bung fell in" and the guy starts laughing and hands me the new lipped bung and a piece of twine. Twine was on the house and I used it to fish out the bung at the end of the process. We called that batch Bungled Brown Ale.
Your beer is supposed to smell very different after fermentation than it did while boiling. That's what yeast does, those little bastards. Two weeks is pretty short for a first time brewer. What was your fermentation temperature? Was it steady? Did you sanitize well? Pitch enough yeast?
It stayed around 65-70 degrees the entire time, so I would say it stayed pretty steady. I sanitized very well using san star and bleach. And I believe I pitched enough yeast.
I was tolled that i was supposed to wait 5 to 7 days after it quit bubbling, then it meant it was okay. Can I get a redirection of that so I don't do that again next time? Or is this why hydrometer use is very important? Thank you!
Thank You all! I'm just nervous, probably like most newbies! But reading what all you experienced people say, has helped me out a lot! Is there any recommended extra time in the bottle since I pulled the beer from fermentation early? Or after two weeks try it, and keep trying every week till it gets there, or what? Thanks again!
try one at 3 weeks... then stick it in the fridge to chill for 24 hours at least... 48 hours is better.
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