a_gunslinger
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Thats why they call it Adventures in Homebrewing Just a humorous tale...
Back into brewing after long hiatus. Have an Anvil Foundry and two SS Brewtech BME kettles fermenters.
Was going to try and prerssure transfer from one SS Brewtech fermenter to the other. Turn on a little CO2 and the bottom out spigot of the beer SS Brewtech starks leaking. If you are familair with the SS Brewtech it has one of those spigots that can rotate in place so the internal pipe can be rotated away from trub. But apparantly, that lock nut has to be just right. Must have been too loose so the CO2 starts forcing beer out gasket. Tunring off CO2 helps, release lid as well to vent. But the pressure did enough to loosen the seal, so I have a nice steady trickle of my good beer draining out - at a rate I was like "Oh hell no.!" I would have probably lost 1 gallon getting 5 gallons transfered.
So what do you do? Most would probably let the gallon go, suck up the mistake and cleanup. Offering to the beer gods. and lesson learned. Maybe I should have done that
Instead, I notice my bucket of sanitizer is next to me. So, you guessed it, stuck my arm into bucket, up to bicep, leave it in there 15 second (all the while watching my beer leak out), then put my entire arm into fermenter and hand tighten the nut to stop the leak (or ).
So if this beer turns out, and my arm didnt infect anything, its going to be called Arm in Your Beer NEIPA.
Back into brewing after long hiatus. Have an Anvil Foundry and two SS Brewtech BME kettles fermenters.
Was going to try and prerssure transfer from one SS Brewtech fermenter to the other. Turn on a little CO2 and the bottom out spigot of the beer SS Brewtech starks leaking. If you are familair with the SS Brewtech it has one of those spigots that can rotate in place so the internal pipe can be rotated away from trub. But apparantly, that lock nut has to be just right. Must have been too loose so the CO2 starts forcing beer out gasket. Tunring off CO2 helps, release lid as well to vent. But the pressure did enough to loosen the seal, so I have a nice steady trickle of my good beer draining out - at a rate I was like "Oh hell no.!" I would have probably lost 1 gallon getting 5 gallons transfered.
So what do you do? Most would probably let the gallon go, suck up the mistake and cleanup. Offering to the beer gods. and lesson learned. Maybe I should have done that
Instead, I notice my bucket of sanitizer is next to me. So, you guessed it, stuck my arm into bucket, up to bicep, leave it in there 15 second (all the while watching my beer leak out), then put my entire arm into fermenter and hand tighten the nut to stop the leak (or ).
So if this beer turns out, and my arm didnt infect anything, its going to be called Arm in Your Beer NEIPA.