Catastrophic Failure!!

[eppo]

Sorry for your loss. If you like glass, try using o2 to aerate. Only thought of this because I'm going to order one tuesday.

 

[DoubleAught]

Seems like we a have big population of Indiana members on this site

Yes it does :rockin:

 

[lovebrew]

Thanks everyone for the thoughts! I ran out today and picked up two 6 gallon BB and built a kit using BeerSmith...crazy easy! I am going to brew the newest batch and try to forget the failures. But I have learned!!

 

[MclovinBeer]

Bummer!!! Same thing happened to me 6 months ago, here's the thread

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/first-screw-up-boy-pic-264043/

I bought better bottles and will never ever go back.

Looks like thermal shock to me. I would be willing to guess you poured the wort into the carboy still warm, then tried to further cool it in an ice bath. As an engineer, I must say that's a big no no with ceramics. I wouldn't necessarily blame the carboy. Also that kind of handle would create a lot of stress on the carboy. That is literally the worst place to lift it. Make sure to lift from the bottom.

 

[brewingmeister]

I'm having a hard time understanding how a zipper would cause a carboy to break?

Because it couldn't unless it was the size of a softball.

 

[bruno_78]

I prefer Great Fermentations. Nothing against Tuxedo Park, but GF has a much friendlier and more helpful staff, they've got a much bigger selection on most everything, and their store is much, much cleaner.

mpenn35, Thanks you for the compliments. I am the manager at GF and it's good to hear that we're hitting the mark. Please let me know when you're in next and introduce yourself!

Bill

 

[mpenn35]

mpenn35, Thanks you for the compliments. I am the manager at GF and it's good to hear that we're hitting the mark. Please let me know when you're in next and introduce yourself!

Bill

Will do! Unfortunately, your store is 45 minutes to an hour for me, so I've only made it over there a few times. Or maybe it's a good thing, because if you were any closer, I'd probably be spending way too much money there...

 

[DoubleAught]

Will do! Unfortunately, your store is 45 minutes to an hour for me, so I've only made it over there a few times. Or maybe it's a good thing, because if you were any closer, I'd probably be spending way too much money there...

lol...it's 1.5 hours for me but but I do go from time to time. I've always love there selection and friendly staff as well. I've never been to Tuxedo Park, just recently found out about it.

 

[EROK]

I LOVE my Better Bottles!!

Yep, True that !

 

[kh54s10]

Glad you weren't hurt with the breaking glass and good move on getting the Better Bottles. It is stories like this that makes it certain that I will never use glass. Well maybe in 2 gallon size or less.

 

[Mellman]

did you pick it up by the "handle" on the top? or were you fully supporting the carboy?

 

[JohnnyShotgun]

Whitestown, Indiana checking in. (Hoosier thread? Lol)

...sorry for your loss, a wasted IPA is a sad thing...

 

[jaautry]

A Whitestown AND a Brownsburg in this thread. Indiana is so racist...

Former Hammond, IN (Chicagoland) resident, here... The glass scares me sometimes, but I've only used it for dry-hopping thus far. So far, so good. Also, I think this may be my first post...

 

[SkyHighBrew88]

A Whitestown AND a Brownsburg in this thread. Indiana is so racist...

What do you make of Greenfield, Greenwood, Greensburg, and Greencastle, Indiana? Haha

 

[mpenn35]

Don't forget Whiteland!!! So ray-cessss!

 

[BamaRooster]

I only brew with plastic buckets, sorry for your loss

+1 on plastic, cheap to replace and never shatters

 

[D_Ranged_Eskimo]

Terrible story. I've got 2 glass carboys (6.5 and a 5), but I started buying BB's. Like the video from EdWort showed, that BB isn't going to break and weights a hell of a lot lighter.

And does it count I have family in Winfield/Merriville area? (Family grew up in Gary/Miller back when it wasn't a place you didn't want to be in, but damn does Flamingo's still make a good pizza in Miller)

 

[Jayhem]

I LOVE my Better Bottles!!

THIS. I bought a pair of 6 gal Better Bottles and they are awesome, people who are hard set on glass carboys are probably the same people who still use a flip cell phone from 2001. PET carboys are superior for many reasons but loosing beer has to be the #1.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[JollyIsTheRoger]

I still use glass, I have a bucket, a 6.5gal glass carboy and a 5gal glass carboy. I also have 4 5gal plastic cubes but I need to find a way to get canola oil out of them before they can be used. I just use milk crates that stay on the whole time unless im cleaning.

Also there was a west Lafayette person in here, but I live in Lafayette so that counts as a new one haha. I do work at purdue though so im in W Lala 5 or 6 days out of the week.

 

[zeg]

people who are hard set on glass carboys are probably the same people who still use a flip cell phone from 2001.

You've got that backwards. I am still using my 2004 flip phone, and it's partially for the same reason I am using plastic carboys. My phone has been kicked off a loading dock to the pavement below and several other similar incidents and it's still going strong. Put an iPhone through that same experience? I imagine it'd react similarly to a glass carboy...

Also there was a west Lafayette person in here, but I live in Lafayette so that counts as a new one haha. I do work at purdue though so im in W Lala 5 or 6 days out of the week.

Lafayette is definitely a separate entity. (I'm at Purdue also, but I find myself in Lafayette at least every weekend because you guys have all the shopping and the breweries...)

 

[JohnnyShotgun]

 

[kh54s10]

What is straight ahead?

 

[Selfsufficient]

W. Lafayette. Oops, correction Indianapolis. And a little further would be Whiteland.

 

[jaautry]

HAHA! This is what I was going to refer to when I pointed the towns out...

West Lafayette also had the best bars. And XXX. Man do I miss Purdue...