Yeah, I got some too....
My biggest....
I had a friend who just got into brewing (I had ZERO knowledge of home brewing at the time). We decided to brew a batch the day before my wedding while he was house sitting for his sister. Every thing went smoothly until it was time to put the airlock on the carboy. Such a simple task....I put the first stopper in but I pushed it in the carboy. "No worries" the brew master said, I have another one...(who doesn't drink ALOT the day before his wedding?) So he put the other one in but we had a little bit of trouble. It kept popping out....so I tried....I got it to stay...
I got back from my honeymoon with about a dozen messages on my cell phone...something about a carboy that exploded and how giant shards of glass had went through some dry wall and how I had to go help patch and paint a wall???? not sure what that was about...
Some nominal...
Did the arm in the primary.... Decent beer (first solo brew)
Missed several mash temps....Decent to GREAT beer
forgot to sanitize a carboy....great beer
Weed whacked some Stirlings that I planted this year (last weekend)
My last brew was a catastrophe...
1. Made a 3gal batch from a 5gal recipe
2. stuck sparge...Messed with the sparge for over 2 hours until I pulled all strainers from my cooler and used a hop bag to filter
3. only had enough hops for my bittering addition (LHBS closed due to the 4th)
4. during fermentation, my carboy reached a max temp of 76 deg (currently at 70)
I'm going to bottle tomorrow. I'm sure something will go wrong with that. Last time I capped, my caper would not crimp the caps all the way.
RDWHAHB
It will be beer...
My biggest....
I had a friend who just got into brewing (I had ZERO knowledge of home brewing at the time). We decided to brew a batch the day before my wedding while he was house sitting for his sister. Every thing went smoothly until it was time to put the airlock on the carboy. Such a simple task....I put the first stopper in but I pushed it in the carboy. "No worries" the brew master said, I have another one...(who doesn't drink ALOT the day before his wedding?) So he put the other one in but we had a little bit of trouble. It kept popping out....so I tried....I got it to stay...
I got back from my honeymoon with about a dozen messages on my cell phone...something about a carboy that exploded and how giant shards of glass had went through some dry wall and how I had to go help patch and paint a wall???? not sure what that was about...
Some nominal...
Did the arm in the primary.... Decent beer (first solo brew)
Missed several mash temps....Decent to GREAT beer
forgot to sanitize a carboy....great beer
Weed whacked some Stirlings that I planted this year (last weekend)
My last brew was a catastrophe...
1. Made a 3gal batch from a 5gal recipe
2. stuck sparge...Messed with the sparge for over 2 hours until I pulled all strainers from my cooler and used a hop bag to filter
3. only had enough hops for my bittering addition (LHBS closed due to the 4th)
4. during fermentation, my carboy reached a max temp of 76 deg (currently at 70)
I'm going to bottle tomorrow. I'm sure something will go wrong with that. Last time I capped, my caper would not crimp the caps all the way.
RDWHAHB
It will be beer...