Disaster Brew Day made amazing beer!

[JasonToews]

Made one of my favorite stout recipes march 3rd on my 26 bday. Since I love coffee stouts I desided to add 1lb of hazel cream coffee beans to the mash. Temps were hitting bang on, so far so good. Went to get my 1st runnings...stuck. Tryed everything to get it through, no go. So I sanatised a strainer and dumped the mash tun grains/wort through it. Then I put the grains back into the mash tun, added my sparge water, did the same thing again! Boiled my wort...40 minutes in, I run out of propane! Next I put the pot on my stove, took forever to get to boiling, but did it for another 20 minutes. Cooled, took a gravity reading, got my planned og! left the beer fermenting for 1 month, transfered into a keg. Force carbed, started drinking week later. Had a bunch of friends over, I couldn't believe it! Everyone loves this beer!

Thankyou beer gods!

 

[jheld00]

That's awesome! It seems every time I brew and something goes wrong whether I drink a little to much or an inebriated friend adds the hops at the wrong time etc... Some how by the grace of the beer gods my beer turns out better than when things go exactly as planned not every time but I'm all ways amazed at how drunken brewing accidents turn out so well. I could only wish I could play golf drunk as well as I brew drunk ha. Cheers

 

[mlyday]

Im sure alot of the way we do things now were because someone screwed up doing what they thought was the right way, and realized the screwed up way was better.

 

[ReefkprZ]

I had too much grain to fit in a bag for this batch so I made a filter that worked awesome. dumped it all back into the pot after filtering it out then sparged hit my OG right on the head. I'll let you know how it comes out in a few weeks.

3 strainers hung with coat hanger 2 layers of polyfilter

that homebrew kit in the background is just a box to store some supplies in its leftover from my first batch of beer ever.

 

[MikeRoBrew1]

Wow one mesh strainer is all I used to use. That's a FILTER! Nice. I have since moved to using 5-gallon strainer bags. I line my 5 gal fermenter pail, use clothes pins to keep it secured to the rim of the pail.

Don't let the bottom of the mesh sit on the bottom of the bucket, keep it about half way up or even higher or else when you pour the hops in they clog the mesh somewhat and the entire volume drains slow.

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