Embarrasing mistake with one-step

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

OK, I know that one-step is not the way to go, but hey, I bought a bunch of it before I read this forum, so I gotta use it up! Anyways....

In the need to improve my efficiency at bottling, I devised a new system. This system was evidently not foolproof, as I found out when I did something foolish. The first eight 1 litre bottles that I filled still contained about 60 ml of one-step! I learned from previous panic situations that it was simply not worth panicking any more, and just carried on bottling after marking the screwed up bottles. I had assumed that they would be totally undrinkable, but was curious to find out what would happen.

Today I opened two bottles, one "contaminated" the other good. I did both a sighted tasting and a blind tasting. To my relief there was no remarkable difference. There was a difference, sure, but it was minimal. I am starting to wonder just how STUPID I need to be to screw up an extract! Admittedly it was a bitter, so harder to make a mess of than most, but even so, I proved to myself that worrying about something I can do nothing about is just not worth the energy any more.

 

[Revvy]

I am starting to wonder just how STUPID I need to be to screw up an extract! Admittedly it was a bitter, so harder to make a mess of than most, but even so, I proved to myself that worrying about something I can do nothing about is just not worth the energy any more.

Methinks, young padwan, that you have acheived beery nirvana.

(There's a name for that, you know...It's called RDWHAHB!)

There's some threads on here where people intentionally tried to ruin their beer doing everything conceivable to screw it up...and still the beer turned out! Try to hunt them down sometime, they'requite funny.

It just goes to prove, that it really is hard to ruin beer!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Aaaaw! Thanks for the warm applause! It's sending a trickle of a tear down my leg!

I am starting to suspect that by making my huge stupid mistake that I am taking the road most travelled!

 

[ChuckMoney]

Yeah, despite my best efforts I've never had an undrinkable batch. By efforts, I'm referring to stupid, blatant errors that no brewer, even an amateur should make. Like pitching yeast into a 100f+ bucket of wort. Accidentally creating a Faux-Berliner Weiss by leaving your wort to cool over night (blended this with peaches in the style of festina peche and it turned out great). Extract mini-boiling like 1.5 g of water and adding it to 3.5 g of tap water, and basically starting with water beer, then trying to up the gravity by stirring in DME without diluting/boiling first (yes it eventually will dissolve into the solution), Priming with table sugar, priming with turbinado sugar, over-priming with corn sugar. Never once have I got an infection, a bottle bomb, or a batch that was just plain foul.

 

[cactusgarrett]

I am starting to wonder just how STUPID I need to be to screw up an extract!

AND, don't sell yourself or extract brewing short, once you get to boil point, it's the same as all-grain. We all screw it up at some point But, congrats!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

AND, don't sell yourself or extract brewing short, once you get to boil point, it's the same as all-grain. We all screw it up at some point But, congrats!

Hehe, I wasn't intending to sell extract short with that statement. Extract is all I know at the moment, and it's great! I'm planning to go AG as soon as possible. I just meant that if I could screw up with fewer processes than AG, then what screw ups lie ahead for me in the future!

 

[IlliniSox4Life]

Hehe, I wasn't intending to sell extract short with that statement. Extract is all I know at the moment, and it's great! I'm planning to go AG as soon as possible. I just meant that if I could screw up with fewer processes than AG, then what screw ups lie ahead for me in the future!

In my opinion (with isn't worth a whole lot), the place that is easiest to screw up is sanitation, and that has nothing to do with AG vs Extract. Basically the only effect that screwing up something in AG will have is to make the recipe slightly different then what you were targeting for, but still drinkable. Unless of course your screwup was something like knocking over your mash and spilling everything on the lawn. Even then I bet if you were quick enough you could salvage something drinkable