Never stick your nose in a tapped keg

I was getting a plastic taste from a keg of water, which I now firmly believe to be from the beer line. Anyway, I vented it, popped the top off, then stupidly stuck my nose in to confirm there was no plastic smell inside. CO2 up the nose stings like a bee. 'bout sent me flying across the room.

 

I do it to my kids all the time. They now know it's coming and still fall for it.

 

I like sniffing a fermenter when at high krausen. One big whiff takes your breath away.

 

Oh great, they're turning into huffers!

 

LOL! They're also two of my favorite ingredients!

 

Guilty here.... Do it evey time

 

Do you have to do a protein rest?

 

Awesome pic!

Another one that has gotten me is opening my chest freezer/fermentor when I had two bubbling away in there and leaning all the way in to sop up some condensation in the bottom... woho, head rush when you come back out, lol.

 

yes! See my fermentation chamber of death post. I had 2 beer and a cider fermenting away and I bent over to move a carboy around. (I have a chest freezer fermenter) Whew...the CO2 level was pooled in the freezer. Wow...aside from smelling like rhino farts the CO2 burned my throat and nose. It took me a second to realize just what happened...then the light came on in my drunken head (I am a resp therapist after all). Ding Ding! LOL

 

No but he is going to have to get a new hop stopper...

 

Oh man... Did this on my first batch ever. Haven't forgotten that mistake!

 

I have heard this is the leading cause of injury in the wine industry. Not the intake of CO2 itself, but rather the subsequent fall from the top of the fermentor after the big CO2 inhale.

Then again its not the fall but the abrupt change in momentum that does the damage.

 

I trick all my friends into smelling the ferm chamber(chest freezer). Never gets old.