Ball valves

[timdillon36]

Close them before you add water to the MLT.

Flooded the kitchen twice in one day.

Same applies to bottling buckets, lost about a pint till my shoe got wet.

 

[augiedoggy]

Been there myself... Same goes for pouring 2 gallons of starsan water into a conical with the dump valve open...

 

[stevehaun]

I have poured my yeast slurrey into the conical with the bottom valve open.

 

[Vandulus]

Been there, done that a few times. I finally customized my BeerSmith Brew Steps to include - "Insert dip tubes and close all valves".

 

[imasickboy]

That's rule #1.

Doesn't mean I still don't **** it up from time to time.

 

[PlexVector]

been there done that...only took once. yikes! I've jinx'd myself...

 

[day_trippr]

Just a couple of brews back I had started up a fly sparge and was sitting in my shop with my back to my brew rig - reading HBT - and after a few minutes started hearing a slight splashing sound behind me.

Without even bothering to take a quick look over my shoulder, I mentally chalked it up to...something "normal".

What a *******.

BK drain valve was open, and around a quart of first runnings was spreading across the shop floor...

Cheers!