Friendly reminder to all beginners check your brew buckets and check all fittings!!!!

[GJOCONNELL]

Don't ask how I know this. I brewed a 5 gallon batch today and everything went smoothly into the ss brewtech buckets and I see a small pool of sweet wort under the bucket! God damn it didn't I tighten the drain port? Great i get to wash my arms then dunk into the bucket of star san wait a minute a plunge my arm into the bucket!

I moved the bucket and put a fresh towel underneath to see if the drips have subsided.....fingers crossed!

Check all the fittings!

 

[Zamboni_man_78]

been there, done that, and yup it sucks to have to dunk your arms but hey at least you caught it right away

 

[Vandulus]

Add me to the list of been there, done that. Two pieces of advice I can offer are:
1) Any time you put together something that will contain liquid, do a leak test with water somewhere that is easy to clean up. This saved me numerous headaches when first assembling my pump fittings. Turned out there was a casting defect that left a pinhole leak in the pump head casing. Took me two hours to figure out and would have ruined a brew day.
2) Put together a brew day checklist and somewhere near the top should be "Close all valves and insert dip tubes." I also have Brew Buckets and have forgotten to insert dip tubes twice now.