All you can do is laugh....

[Hoppy2bmerry]

So someone started a thread a couple weeks ago that was all about venting your frustrations on whatever, well the intent of this thread is similar but rather than venting per say, it's for those moments in which all you can do is ask WTF and laugh

I'll go first ha

So filling bottles for a competition this weekend (i use a beergun) and so after this particular bottle was full, I blanked for some reason and hit the trigger for the gas while it was still in the bottle. Sh*t shot out like Ole Faithful all over my table and the garage floor . It was honestly too funny to be mad. I drank what was left in the bottle and just carried on with the rest

Don’t do that!

 

[soccerdad]

I have a PP bucket that has a tap on it and I use it for bottling. Since the tap is not placed completely at the bottom, to get it all out I have to put something beneath it to tilt it. Once it happened that I tilted it a little bit too much and started bottling again, sitting on the floor while the bucket was on the table. Needless to say what happened next. I think swearing was heard to the apartment next door.

I try to keep the pre pre bucket away from the beer stuff.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

I use a binder clip to hold my hop bag to my kettle handle. I took the clip off and the little bugger sprang right out of my fingers into the pot. End of the boil too so no sanitation time. Beer turned out fine. Dubbed it "3M Brown".

 

[seatazzz]

Just tapped two of my best beers in a while; a seriously hoppy Citra/Sabro IPA, and a WF Czech Lager. Both taste terrific, at least according to the husband. I'm recovering from the 'rona, and still haven't got all my taste and smell back. I've got two great beers and all I can taste is bitter & carbonation. Arrrrrrgh.

 

[Sam_92]

Just tapped two of my best beers in a while; a seriously hoppy Citra/Sabro IPA, and a WF Czech Lager. Both taste terrific, at least according to the husband. I'm recovering from the 'rona, and still haven't got all my taste and smell back. I've got two great beers and all I can taste is bitter & carbonation. Arrrrrrgh.

That's super disappointing! I hope your sense of smell comes back soon. In the meantime I guess you can kill off any batches that didn't turn out as well as you were hoping.

 

[DannyBoy270]

Just tapped two of my best beers in a while; a seriously hoppy Citra/Sabro IPA, and a WF Czech Lager. Both taste terrific, at least according to the husband. I'm recovering from the 'rona, and still haven't got all my taste and smell back. I've got two great beers and all I can taste is bitter & carbonation. Arrrrrrgh.

That sucks I had a buddy give away more or less a case of hopslam last year because of the same thing. Fwiw his starting coming back like less than a month after that. Hope you get to enjoy some of yours before its gone!

 

[lumpher]

A few brews ago I kegged my beer, then realized the keg lid was at the bottom of the full keg.

 

[Henbrew]

A few brews ago I kegged my beer, then realized the keg lid was at the bottom of the full keg.

I've dropped keg lid gaskets into my keg but never the whole lid. That's impressive!

 

[D.B.Moody]

A few brews ago I kegged my beer, then realized the keg lid was at the bottom of the full keg.

Was it sanitized and purged of oxygen?

 

[superiorsat]

They say a picture is worth 1000 words. This one is worth at least 6. "Use a damn blow off tube"...View attachment 746464

I should have taken a picture the other day of the insane mess I had. Split batch sour beers 6.25 gallons of strawberry peanut butter sour now down to 5.25 gallons after insane overflow through blow off tube into starsan jug, and a raspberry sour start 6.25 gallon now down to 5.5 gallon after adding to the insane mess. The bottom of the fridge was so full that it found its way out and all over the floor of about 1/8th of may garage. Friggen Kviek! Go to work for a couple hours and bam! A couple rolls of paper towels and all cleaned up. I always anticipate a little blow off and will change out the starsan jug once in a while to avoid over flow but this one got away on me with the 2 batches chugging away at 90 degrees. Haha.

 

[GBRbrew]

40 minutes into my mash and I pop inside to make a bloody mary, glace at the table and there sit my water adjustment salts. And yes this is happening as I type.

 

[wepeeler]

40 minutes into my mash and I pop inside to make a bloody mary, glace at the table and there sit my water adjustment salts. And yes this is happening as I type.

Been there, done that. Added it and prayed. Everything seemed fine in the end!

 

[eric19312]

So went to swap my blow off tube last night for pressure manifold. I do that when the fermentation slows down, there is a PRV on the manifold and a gas post, I put a spunding valve on the gas post and let fermentation wrap up at about 10 psi. Something looked wrong after I took off the blow off (TC elbow to a silicone hose). There was still a TC clamp on the port....DOH I didn't remove the CIP ball when I set up the conical. Sigh. Freeking lucky that tiny slit in the CIP ball didn't plug and destroy the conical and possibly the freezer it sits in...

Funny thing is I noticed there was issue at end of my brew day but misunderstood what it was. My process is to keg, clean, reassemble and then fill all during the brew day. I did a shorter brew than normal, no whirlpool mainly, so was in a bit of a hurry at the end but had the fermentor cleaned, sanitized and in place with time to spare. Filled my fermentor, single pass through CFC, into the bottom dump port, no issues. Only issue I noticed was that even though my volume looked a bit low, the fermentor filled, overfilled, sooner than expected and wort was starting to come out my blow off tube while I still had a gallon or so in the kettle. Hmmm oh well stop it there and proceed. When I went to pitch my yeast took a look inside and saw I only got 16.5 gallons in...nowhere near overflowing which would be around 19 gallons. Recorded my notes in Beersmith and saw this resulted in a pretty significant efficiency hit. But the batch had a whole lot of wheat in it (50% when most I tend to use is 10%) so I wrote in my Beersmith log "efficiency hit due to wort lost filling the fermentor. must have been foamy going in because started overflowing the blow off even though only 16.5 gallons in. had at least 1 more gallon of wort that could have gotten in."

HAHAHA nope...I filled to the level of the CIP ball then pushed beer up the CIP ball and out the blowoff tube...