Disaster during kegging!

[Skyhunter]

I just needed to share the disaster that happened this morning. I put my conical fermenter on a chair to rest before I racked it into my keg. I stepped out of the room and then I heard this creaking noise..... it all happened in slow motion... I turned to run back into the room and I saw the tidal wave of beer pouring out into the hall.

I managed to save half of it but the mess was imense. It took me several hours to clean it up. Hope the wife doesn't find out....

I was putting the fermenter on the chair to get it up above the keg, so it would flow down the tube into the keg.

Lesson learned for next time.........

 

[BargainFittings]

If it makes you feel better I had a full 5 gallon bucket of honey crystallize and start to ferment. Honey was everywhere and leaked up under a wall.

Luckily the wife never noticed that one.

I feel for you!

 

[Boodlemania]

ouch. just, ouch.

 

[dweaver]

the chair broke under how many gallons?

 

[Skyhunter]

Chair didn't break. Fermenter tipped over.

 

[Germelli1]

My mom (I was 21 and home for the summer) flipped out when she came home to see the open pulled out from the wall while I desperately trying to clean the liquid spilled from a boil over...didn't help that it had run behind the cabinets and started dripping into the basement.

Most of us have done boneheaded things haha

 

[jlpred55]

I love these stories. It makes me feel so much better about the stupid stuff I do.

 

[dweaver]

Chair didn't break. Fermenter tipped over.

Oh , when I read that you heard a creaking noise I figured that the chair was breaking, and figured you had to have put a lot more than 5 gallons/50lbs on it to break or else you would have known right away that the chair was not sturdy

 

[Hernando]

Heart breaking....just heartbreaking.

 

[Plumeja]

Yes it is bad when girlfriends wife find u in the clean up. Last week I tried for the first time boiling my extract kit with irishmoss and some hops in a small pot. The boil over was too fast to catch and was in the element emailing and smelling like bad burnt sugar. The smoke was everywhere so I opened all the doors in the apartment a d the smoke alarm went off in the hall of the building, one person was wondering about the noise and as I'm waving the smoke from the alarm there comes my gf up the stairs wondering what's up. Embarrassed!!

 

[cjb]

My brother once siphoned an entire 5-gallon batch of root beer onto his kitchen floor. It seeped down into the basement and mixed with the drywall ceiling, forming a sticky, drippy white paste that rained down all over his laundry room (full of clothes).