Photopilot
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Throw a carboy stored outside in Utah in Winter on a carboy cleaner, filled with hot water. Don't do that.
Don't Do That.
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Photopilot
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Guess you won't be drinking at my house then. Besides a yard full of black widows, our guest bedroom has 4 tarantulas. I might have to check though as my wife may have added more since I last looked.
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But thank God we have camel toes.
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Four gallon kettle with three gallons in it. I'm brewing an extract kit, so I steep my grains and decide to rinse them and add the rinse water to the kettle. That added 4-6 cups. Then I added my LME and DME. Now I am maybe an inch and a half from the top of my pot. I managed to not only get through my boil without boiling over, but also boiled out a half gallon or so, enough for my wort chiller to fit without spilling over.
Using too small of a pot, or too much water, DONT DO THAT!
OG on that three gallons was over 1.06, I added around 2.5 gallons to bring it down to just under 1.05, and 5.5 gallons of wort.
Using too small of a pot, or too much water, DONT DO THAT!
OG on that three gallons was over 1.06, I added around 2.5 gallons to bring it down to just under 1.05, and 5.5 gallons of wort.
rlmiller10
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Better check your measurements. 3 gal of 1.060 wort gives 180 points. Add water to make 5.5 gallons and you have 180/5.5 or 1.033 wort. You are making a session beer.
Strat-ifi-ca-tion time, come on!
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I have a 4 inch piece of silicon hose that is attached to a hose barb/male camlock. I attach it to my hoses when draining wort to my carboy so the wort will be a nice steady stream into said carboy.
Anyhow, yesterday after filling my carboy with freshly chilled wort I decided to detach the camlock to my little hose tail while it was still in the neck of my carboy... And promptly dropped it in with the wort.
Don't Do that.
Anyhow, yesterday after filling my carboy with freshly chilled wort I decided to detach the camlock to my little hose tail while it was still in the neck of my carboy... And promptly dropped it in with the wort.
Don't Do that.
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Ordering tubing and camlocks (or anything requiring specific sizing) after a little too much home brew....don't do that.
Putting together my new rig tonight before tomorrow's planned brew and found my silicon tubing is ID 3/8" instead of 1/2". Good thing I have enough spare lower quality tubing from before to get me through the day.
Putting together my new rig tonight before tomorrow's planned brew and found my silicon tubing is ID 3/8" instead of 1/2". Good thing I have enough spare lower quality tubing from before to get me through the day.
Adjusting the posts on my corny keg, just before filling the keg and accidentally hit your favorite primary fermentation carboy that is full of beer with your crescent wrench.
Don't Do That!
(The beer was salvaged though.)
Don't Do That!
(The beer was salvaged though.)
Damn! At least it's not all over the floor... I'd be getting my auto siphon and a new container sanitized double time! Kudos for stopping to take a picture...
Yeah, I was messing with the keg because I was just about to transfer that beer to the keg, so it was easy to relax!
Do the nearly perfect brew day, everything going so well that you decide to rack a fermenter of beer to keg while the boil is ongoing.
But the brew has a lot of pieces (additions at 20, 15, 10 and 2 minutes), so you forget to star-san the spigot from the fermenter before you rack it to the keg. No, I wasn't drinking....yet.
Don't do that!
Hopefully it will turn out ok. The beer has ABV of around 6.5%, perhaps it will be inhospitable to whatever might have made its way into the keg.
But the brew has a lot of pieces (additions at 20, 15, 10 and 2 minutes), so you forget to star-san the spigot from the fermenter before you rack it to the keg. No, I wasn't drinking....yet.
Don't do that!
Hopefully it will turn out ok. The beer has ABV of around 6.5%, perhaps it will be inhospitable to whatever might have made its way into the keg.
Don't buy cheap keg O rings on amazon and expect them to work perfectly, then not check your serving QD only to find its leaking slowly.
6 hours later, there's 2 gallons of beer in the bottom of my keezer because it leaked out from under the QD while I was out of the house buying new brewing equipment... So much for that keg
6 hours later, there's 2 gallons of beer in the bottom of my keezer because it leaked out from under the QD while I was out of the house buying new brewing equipment... So much for that keg
one of my friends and his old rodeo partner made an O2/Acetylene bomb with a construction grade trash bag. don't do that.
Spamming by copying old posts. Don't do that.
Assume you've bought all the ingredients for a brew, only to find on brew day that you didn't. Don't do that...
Assume you've bought all the ingredients for a brew, only to find on brew day that you didn't. Don't do that...
I just did that in preparation for brewing Biermuncher's Black Pearl Porter. Had everything, except it turns out that the Crystal 30L I thought I had turned out to be Crystal 60L.
I went with it, but the lesson is to double-check and be certain. I'm sure I'll learn that lesson someday.
I just did that in preparation for brewing Biermuncher's Black Pearl Porter. Had everything, except it turns out that the Crystal 30L I thought I had turned out to be Crystal 60L.
I went with it, but the lesson is to double-check and be certain. I'm sure I'll learn that lesson someday.
Did that as well. The crystal 10L I thought I had turned out to be 40L. Had only noticed it on Mumme brew day!...
1. Break up with your girlfriend of 4 years with a killer 3 year old Kriek going in the basement. Necessitated me moving to a new home and moving the kriek. Didn't work and coated the bed of my truck nicely.
2. Basically quit homebrewing for 2 years only to pick up a copy of BYO at Barnes and Noble and get sucked right back into wanting to go back into it. New girlfriend pushing you to get back into it hard core as she's a beer lover (emigrated here from Germany). Re-acquainting myself with modern tools/techniques and realizing I might need to upgrade my kit. Thus - why I'm here, today.
Don't do either.
2. Basically quit homebrewing for 2 years only to pick up a copy of BYO at Barnes and Noble and get sucked right back into wanting to go back into it. New girlfriend pushing you to get back into it hard core as she's a beer lover (emigrated here from Germany). Re-acquainting myself with modern tools/techniques and realizing I might need to upgrade my kit. Thus - why I'm here, today.
Don't do either.
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Pitch your stir bar along with your starter - two batches in a row.
Don't do that
Don't do that
Kinda did the same thing. Threw out a nasty bag of hop gunk, forgetting to remove the heavy shot glass I'd put in it as a weight. Don't do that!
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I have no idea what I brewed today. I did hit my numbers though
Weigh out the majority of a recipe while you await mail order of Honey Malt and C10 ... get busy for 10 weeks ... when you get back to the real world, DO NOT consult your notes ... just throw a pound of honey malt in what you think was grist for the Honey Wheat. Discover halfway through grinding that the grist set aside was for a Blonde Ale.
Idiot Bastard Son is the only name I can think of for this beer.
Don't Do That .. on the other hand, if it turns out great .. Do That ! Again.
Weigh out the majority of a recipe while you await mail order of Honey Malt and C10 ... get busy for 10 weeks ... when you get back to the real world, DO NOT consult your notes ... just throw a pound of honey malt in what you think was grist for the Honey Wheat. Discover halfway through grinding that the grist set aside was for a Blonde Ale.
Idiot Bastard Son is the only name I can think of for this beer.
Don't Do That .. on the other hand, if it turns out great .. Do That ! Again.
Wait for it.....
TexasDroughtBrewery
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Forget to shut off the water hose after cleaning everything up. Don't do that.
Made me laugh!!! Is that the meaning of your brewery name?
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Oh I just laughed so damn hard. I didn't put that connection together.
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I did these 3 things all at once this morning .. opened a keg that kicked and was rinsed last month .. began spritzing it with Star San .. farted
don't do that .. you won't know if the Sulphur smell is last month's keg, last week's sanitizer, or last night's IPA
don't do that .. you won't know if the Sulphur smell is last month's keg, last week's sanitizer, or last night's IPA
Add a 4th tap to your keezer; get all the parts cleaned and ready to go, drill the hole with no mishaps, install the tap perfectly in line with the others, connect line to the tailpiece via MFL and tighten, connect via MFL to QD for liquid out post BUT FORGET TO TIGHTEN IT DOWN.
Two days later, an icicle down the side of the keg and beer on the floor of the keezer. And hour plus of disconnecting everything, removing from keezer, cleaning it all up, and returning kegs to keezer. Probably 3 beers lost. Thank goodness for slow leaks.
Failing to tighten all connections? Don't do that!
Two days later, an icicle down the side of the keg and beer on the floor of the keezer. And hour plus of disconnecting everything, removing from keezer, cleaning it all up, and returning kegs to keezer. Probably 3 beers lost. Thank goodness for slow leaks.
Failing to tighten all connections? Don't do that!
