Grains all over the floor

[refect]

So I just went to my garage to mill my grains for brew day tomorrow. I like to have my grains milled and water profile dialed in the night/day before. I'll set my timer and strike water temp, so once I wake up everything is ready to go. I just grab my bucket of grains and mash in.

Anyways, milling was a pain for some reason today. Took forever to mill. It constantly kept free spinning and jamming up. I had to keep messing with it to get it going again, only for it to do it again a few seconds later. My hopper was filled just about to the top and I managed to knock it over during one of the attempts to fix it. A few ounces of grains went all over the garage floor.

I then did what any reasonable person would do...curse at it, ponder why I am brewing, walk away, and grab a beer. After I finished my beer, I decided to go back out to deal with my situation. I decided to scoop as much of the grains off the floor and put them back in the hopper. My garage floor was dry with no oil/other fluids on the ground. Just a little dirt and a few leaf particles (I managed to pick most of it out). I ended up leaving out a little less than a handful that went under the car and finished milling.

I'm brewing s session IPA tomorrow, so there is very little grains to start with. I also only ordered what I needed, so I couldn't let the spilled grains go waste. I'm sure a little dirt and leaf particles in the mash never hurt anyone lol

Anyways, that's my story of frustration for brew day tomorrow. Feel free to laugh or sympathize at my expense.

Now who can come up with some clever names for this batch?

 

[Happy Tails Brewing]

Gave Chat GPT the story, and here are the names it came up with. I like a couple of these. Maybe you will one of these funny as well.

Hope the rest of your brew day goes better. I am sure the beer will turn out good.

Play on the Spill / Floor Grains:

• Five-Second IPA
• Garage Floor Session
• Dusty Mash
• Leaf Litter IPA
• Floor Malted (like “floor-malted barley,” but literal this time)

Play on the Frustration / Persistence:

• Cursed Hopper
• Jammin’ IPA
• Grainstorm
• Mills of Madness
• Spill & Sip

Play on Redemption / Salvage Brewing:

• Against the Grain
• No Grain Left Behind
• Dirty Hands, Clean Beer
• Second Chances IPA
• Garage Resilience

Session IPA specific / lighter tone:

• Little Dirt, Big Flavor
• Leaf It Alone
• Oops-Ale
• Floor Spice Session
• Tiny Tragedy IPA

 

[Snuffy]

I vote for "5 Second Rule IPA"

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Dunno 'bout a name, but I think whatever you come up with needs a blurb that says:

Made with genuine malted floor-barley ​

Hopefully it turns out just fine!

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

I managed to pick most of it out). I ended up leaving out a little less than a handful that went under the car and finished milling.
[...]

Now who can come up with some clever names for this batch?

Shake It Off Session IPA.

 

[BrewZer]

Dirty Seeds, Done Dirt Cheap Ale

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Gave Chat GPT the story

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their ... (article)

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their ... (discussion)

selected comments

• "I'd say maybe 5% of web traffic is currently coming from actual humans."
• "a popular Linux gaming resource... About ten days ago I started incurring 30GB of data per day ... I'm looking at an extra ~$500USD a month ..." (for a hobby resource)
• "[... they don't] respect basic ethics, legal copyrights and common sense aren't gonna stop because they're a nuisance. They'll keep at it until they've ruined what birthed them so they may replace it."

Too long; don't care? it's not just the initial scans for training. It's also the real-time web search.

 

[Indian_villager]

Floor Spice
A Little Bit of Floor Spice Will Get Me Nice
Lamentations Of A 10mm
Rested On Cement
Victim Of Physics

 

[jdauria]

Did the same thing myself when I first got my own mill...didn't hold the mill with one hand while using a drill to mill the grain and wound up with grain all over the kitchen floor. Wound up sweeping it all and putting it back in the mill. Figured any dirt, dog hair, etc...would filter out in the grain bed and be boiled off during the boil. Don't think the grain was the issue, but the pumpkin ale I made was horrible...which I now know was probably from using water from our regular garden hose.

 

[refect]

I'm really liking some of those that chat gtp came up with

Brew day went well, but it was much longer than I wanted it to be. I was happy the mill incident wasn't an indication of how my brew day was going to go. Hit all my numbers and targets spot on. We all know we do the happy dance either in person or in our heads when we hit those targets dead on! Lol

Every beer i make that has some sort of disaster happen to where I think the batch is gonna be ****, ends up being amazing, so I have high hopes for this. Even though it wasn't much of a disaster.

 

[BrewZer]

Don't think the grain was the issue, but the pumpkin ale I made was horrible...which I now know was probably from using water from our regular garden hose.

You don't think the pumpkin had anything to do with it?

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

You don't think the pumpkin had anything to do with it?

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

@BrewZer & @Rush : if you're looking for something worthy of

, check out the data center being built in Cheyenne, WY (link). Initial electrical requirements is 1.8 giga-watts; the design scales to 10 giga-watts.

From the article:

A gigawatt can power as many as 1 million homes. But that’s more homes than Wyoming has people. The least populated state, Wyoming, has about 590,000 people.

 

[jdauria]

You don't think the pumpkin had anything to do with it?

Ha! I really don't think so as pumpkin was in the boil and would have killed off anything and I have brewed plenty of pumpkin beers since then without having the same issue. Beside garden hoses not being the best to use, it was also only my 2nd all grain at the time, so I am sure I screwed up plenty of things, but the pumpkin wasn't one Found out later on that my town's water is not that great for brewing either, too much sodium and high chlorides.

 

[Broken Crow]

"Get Floored"

 

[Willy]

If using centennial and Mosaic hops ...

"Custom 100 yr old mosaic flooring" IPA

 

[agentbud]

Every beer i make that has some sort of disaster happen to where I think the batch is gonna be ****.

If I ever have a brew day that goes perfect, I probably wouldn't be able to sleep that night wondering what I missed.

 

[Brockness Monster]

^^^
This guy gets it

 

[refect]

If using centennial and Mosaic hops ...

"Custom 100 yr old mosaic flooring" IPA

There is mosaic in this batch! Citra, mosaic, and strata to be exact (majority strata). I was gonna toss in some idaho 7 because it was in the freezer and I need to get rid of it, but decided not to over do it since this is gonna be a low 4% session. I felt like i was starting to get close to the border of pleasant and astringent with the amount if hops going in and not having the gravity to back it up.