Dumbest Newbie Brewing Mistakes You've Made

[NoIguanaForZ]

For some reason i thought it was a combination cleaner and sanitizer. I just checked the kit they're currently selling and it is noted that they include a cleaner, but no sanitizer.

They've also changed some of the verbiage; at one point it was "all you need is bottles." They no longer say that.

Seems to me they should include a small bottle of Star-San.

Labeling a product that only cleans, doesn't sanitize, for a process that requires both cleaning and sanitizing - and thus, if used, results in that process requiring two or more steps - "One Step" is like labeling a consumer pesticide "Mr. Happy's Yummy Bug-Be-Gone Juice." It's not just blatantly misleading, but in a way that any fool can see will directly cause harm.

 

[Micahmagne]

Dropped glass hydrometer into a Carboy. Torpedoed to bottom and shattered. Had to research what the little weight balls were made of (graphite, I think), and not dangerous. Let them settle out, racked and strained through uber-fine mesh to get all the glass and graphite out.

 

[Bobb25]

I bottled my first batch in early December several years ago. Two six-packs went on the kitchen cupboard ( under a towel ) . Due to decorating for the impending Christmas season, it was declared by SWMBO that the remaining 36 bottles had to go into the basement. ( note: winter,..Ohio...cold ). I drank 12 well carbonated beers, and the basement 36 were flat. Drank em anyway.
Bob

 

[kadozen]

I bottled my first batch in early December several years ago. Two six-packs went on the kitchen cupboard ( under a towel ) . Due to decorating for the impending Christmas season, it was declared by SWMBO that the remaining 36 bottles had to go into the basement. ( note: winter,..Ohio...cold ). I drank 12 well carbonated beers, and the basement 36 were flat. Drank em anyway.
Bob

Doing this, part of you learns to like flat beer. And warm beer.

Well, tolerate would be a better word

 

[Ethanfox]

Removed temp probe from fermenting chamber to clean, rearrange two fermenting carboys and a third carboy aging wine.

Four days later, I noticed the temp probe still hanging on the wall next to the fermenting chamber - temperature was sitting at 120 degrees.

 

[HB_in_Subic]

Rushing my bottling at 10 days irregardless of my FG just to get a pipeline going...

 

[Dixon9717]

Yesterday after adding strike water then added about 1lb of grain before I realized I forgot to put the false bottom in the MT. Glad I caught it when I did. Was a pretty easy fix.

 

[Johntodd]

I can truthfully say that I've never made a newbie mistake!*

*(I must also confess that I've never brewed beer. My first batch will probably be next weekend.)

 

[Ethanfox]

I can truthfully say that I've never made a newbie mistake!*

*(I must also confess that I've never brewed beer. My first batch will probably be next weekend.)

Perhaps your mistake was not brewing sooner!

 

[Johntodd]

LOL! I think you're right!