Don't Do That.

[Brew_Dude41]

Don't forget to replace your 6.5 BMB after one of your sons broke it...
Brewed up my Christmas ale a few weeks back and only remembered that I was down a 6.5 gal fermenter after I started the boil and was sanitizing the fermenter that I still had. All that I had that would in my ferm chamber was a 5 gal better bottle. Of course I hit my volume and had 12 gal wort.
Filled them up, hooked up some blow off tubes into a gal pickle jar and prepped for what was going to be a pretty active fermentation. Came home to find this (no surprise):

Bringing 11.5 gallons worth of space to 12 gallon brew day, don't do that

 

[bleme]

Don’t take your favorite beer glass straight out of the hot dishwasher and put ice water in it so it won’t heat up your beer.

 

[Cameronl]

After taking a gravity reading, don't casually plunk your hydrometer into that 5 gallon bucket of cleaning solution. It will shoot straight down to the bottom and break the tip off, spilling hundreds of tiny bead weights.

 

[bracconiere]

don't get lazy and start drinking hard seltzer....and buy a hydro calibrated to 150f for a mash and never get to use it!


lazy kills, even though it's still in one piece...my soul is dying because i haven't used it yet.....

 

[balrog]

don't get lazy and start drinking hard seltzer....and buy a hydro calibrated to 150f for a mash and never get to use it!


lazy kills, even though it's still in one piece...my soul is dying because i haven't used it yet.....

Sheesh
THere is time, my friend, there is time.

 

[seatazzz]

Don't get so embroiled in a new hobby (anyone need a knitted beanie? Seriously, I've got bunches) that you leave brewing too late, to the point you have to brew two kveik batches in one weekend just to get the pipeline to minimum. Husband's tagline used to be 'you're brewing again?' Now it's 'You haven't brewed in a while, aren't we going to run out?' Also he's getting a bit tired of yarn ends all over the house.

 

[bracconiere]

(anyone need a knitted beanie? Seriously, I've got bunches)

i'll even pay for the yarn+shipping, and drink a homebrew in your honor! should i measure my brain size for a custom one?

 

[Pkrd]

Don't get so embroiled in a new hobby (anyone need a knitted beanie? Seriously, I've got bunches) that you leave brewing too late, to the point you have to brew two kveik batches in one weekend just to get the pipeline to minimum. Husband's tagline used to be 'you're brewing again?' Now it's 'You haven't brewed in a while, aren't we going to run out?' Also he's getting a bit tired of yarn ends all over the house.

Knitted BIAB kettle cosies?

 

[bracconiere]

Knitted BIAB kettle cosies?

she could start sewing with kevlar, you're right!

 

[seatazzz]

i'll even pay for the yarn+shipping, and drink a homebrew in your honor! should i measure my brain size for a custom one?

One size only my dear, that's the fun of a knitting machine. The way your brain works sometimes I don't know if I have enough yarn.....

 

[bracconiere]

knitting machine.

??? my mom and grandama did it by hand, cheater!

but i'd still like a nice beanie....and i don't if your comment about enough yarn is to thaw my head or cover it......

 

[RM-MN]

Don't get so embroiled in a new hobby (anyone need a knitted beanie? Seriously, I've got bunches) that you leave brewing too late, to the point you have to brew two kveik batches in one weekend

You spelled day incorrectly. Two batches one day, a third batch the next and now the pipeline if filled for the moment.

 

[seatazzz]

You spelled day incorrectly. Two batches one day, a third batch the next and now the pipeline if filled for the moment.

Mea culpa...but the grain bins speak otherwise. Need to get them filled this week!

 

[bracconiere]

but the grain bins speak otherwise.

imagine if you had to wait a week for each batches worth of malt too!

 

[seatazzz]

BOT.

When you are doing a true pressure-fermented lager for the first time, DON'T get antsy and crash too soon; just because the hydrometer says it's 'done', it still needs cleanup time. Acetaldehyde is not a nice flavor to get on first taste. Yah, don't do that. I should know better.

 

[ncbrewer]

While steeping grains, attempt to turn the burner for the boil kettle up to High. Actually it was the steeping pan burner that was turned up to High, and the grains got up to boiling. (Cooled back down as fast as possible)

As if that wasn't enough, add the finishing hops at the start of the boil. (Face palm) So too much bitterness and no aroma hops.

Don't do that.
Don't do that.

 

[mac_1103]

??? my mom and grandama did it by hand, cheater!

Your mom and grandma knitted with crochet hooks?

 

[El Whedo]

I was silver soldering bezel to a setting. Making a pendant with three settings for stone... lapis and two big pieces of Tibetan green turquoise. My torch had the silver solder flowing nicely when one of the bezels scootched a bit to the side and was wonky, the torch was in my right hand so I reached over with my left index finger and pushed it straight.

Don’t do that.

 

[bracconiere]

Your mom and grandma knitted with crochet hooks?

which are family heirlooms...

 

[doug293cz]

I was silver soldering bezel to a setting. Making a pendant with three settings for stone... lapis and two big pieces of Tibetan green turquoise. My torch had the silver solder flowing nicely when one of the bezels scootched a bit to the side and was wonky, the torch was in my right hand so I reached over with my left index finger and pushed it straight.

Don’t do that.

Many hot things look like cold things. Back in high school, one of the chemistry teachers had what he called Weaver's First Law: "Hot glass looks like cold glass." (Yes we were allowed to use open flames to do glass work at school.)

Years later I wasn't thinking about Weaver's First Law when a pickup truck I was following dropped it's entire exhaust system in the middle of the road. I decided to be a good citizen and clear the hazard from the road. A hot exhaust pipe looks just like a cold exhaust pipe. Don't do that!

Brew on

 

[PCABrewing]

Many hot things look like cold things. Back in high school, one of the chemistry teachers had what he called Weaver's First Law: "Hot glass looks like cold glass." (Yes we were allowed to use open flames to do glass work at school.)

Years later I wasn't thinking about Weaver's First Law when a pickup truck I was following dropped it's entire exhaust system in the middle of the road. I decided to be a good citizen and clear the hazard from the road. A hot exhaust pipe looks just like a cold exhaust pipe. Don't do that!

Brew on

I remember watching drag racing at US30 drag strip in Indiana (~1973).

One car, a 69 Chevelle with a big block spit a rod out the bottom. It was snapped off just below the wrist-pin boss.

The rod bounced off the track, then landed in the adjacent lane.
No harm, it didn't hit anyone, everything looked OK, until the poor track worker walked over and picked it up.
He was able to hold it for about 1 second

Don't do that!

 

[bracconiere]

i thought you kids with cell phones had IR cameras built in these days?

 

[PCABrewing]

Related to brewing;

We had just installed a new gas cooktop in the kitchen during a fall remodel.
As luck would have it, I received a homebrew kit for Christmas.
So I am in full learning mode.
I have a ~3gal. stockpot that reached full boil with about 1" to spare to the rim of the pot, extract was all in and it was time for the bittering hops. I looked at the hops and thought "those are only about a tablespoon, they should fit just fine".

Don't do that, even though I'm pretty sure many already have.

 

[PCABrewing]

i thought you kids with cell phones had IR cameras built in these days?

There wasn't any cell phones available in 1973, unless you worked in the lab where they were being developed.
And they certainly didn't have cameras

 

[day_trippr]

i thought you kids with cell phones had IR cameras built in these days?

Those are pretty rare and purpose-built. I don't know of any phones from the bigs (Apple, Samsung, etc) that have native IR capability one can exploit. Indeed phones usually have fairly heavy IR cut filters on their cameras...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

Most digitalis have the IR filters. When desiring IR specific camera for astrophotography, one has to special order from the bigs, or just go with a purpose built camera.

 

[PCABrewing]

Most digitalis have the IR filters. When desiring IR specific camera for astrophotography, one has to special order from the bigs, or just go with a purpose built camera.

I have an old Sony camcorder. I noticed (many years ago) that it would "see" the IR LED in some remote controls when they activated.
It was visible on the built-in screen.
I'm sure you couldn't easily take advantage of it but I thought it was interesting.

Do you think I am correct that it was seeing the IR?

 

[day_trippr]

Do you think I am correct that it was seeing the IR?

Absolutely correct. I still use a cell phone camera if one of our many IR remotes seems to be on the fritz - the IR blaster from a remote will bleed through most IR cut filters enough that you can see the whitish transmitter "glow" to know it's working or not...

Cheers!

 

[marc1]

Many hot things look like cold things. Back in high school, one of the chemistry teachers had what he called Weaver's First Law: "Hot glass looks like cold glass." (Yes we were allowed to use open flames to do glass work at school.)

Years later I wasn't thinking about Weaver's First Law when a pickup truck I was following dropped it's entire exhaust system in the middle of the road. I decided to be a good citizen and clear the hazard from the road. A hot exhaust pipe looks just like a cold exhaust pipe. Don't do that!

Brew on

LOL. My high school chemistry teacher had a similar saying that is applicable outside the lab as well:

When you heat things, they get hot.

He told us this at the beginning of the year, and guaranteed that someone would forget that simple truism in class before the end of the year. Prediction: true. Wasn't me in class, but has happened to me plenty of times in life. My wife and kids know the saying now, too

 

[mac_1103]

My HS physics lab partner actually set his hair on fire once. Something with optics and candles. He was pretty pissed when I started slapping his head, but he probably would have been even more pissed if I hadn't.