Haaa - what a rookie

[AZMonsoon]

I'm not completely new. I think this is my 8th brew or so. Anyway, doing Dead Ringer from Northern Brewer this morning. I have a gallon of extract and cold water in the fridge. Go out to grab a few cups for the boil and I can see some of it on the bottom of the fridge.

Turns out after I cleaned my fermenter, I forgot to tighten back up the spigot. I had to wash my arm off, hit it with Starsan and tighten the spigot. What a rookie move. I guess I'll add a little ldme at the end of the boil to compensate

Happy brewing to you.

 

[Remos112]

Sounds so familliar. The other day I was siphoning into my bottling bucket but the tap was still in the open position. Only after hearing some splasching I realised something must have gone wrong so I ran to the room with the buckets, quickly turned the tap to close position, but there was like 2 liters of precious beer on the floor already. Oh well live and learn

 

[Froyd]

Sounds so familliar. The other day I was siphoning into my bottling bucket but the tap was still in the open position. Only after hearing some splasching I realised something must have gone wrong so I ran to the room with the buckets, quickly turned the tap to close position, but there was like 2 liters of precious beer on the floor already. Oh well live and learn

More like "live and repeat your mistakes" for me. I had the open spigot incident twice now. I figure one more time and then it'll hopefully sink in that I really should check the spigot before filling.

 

[Calichusetts]

I vorlauf with about 2-3 feet of tubing into a cup...put tubing on pot handle, pour back in, repeat. Twice now in about 10 brews, I add the sparge water...look at the tubing now half full and realize I left the valve open. Serious accident waiting to happen.

And I'm on brew 150ish

 

[eadavis80]

More like "live and repeat your mistakes" for me. I had the open spigot incident twice now. I figure one more time and then it'll hopefully sink in that I really should check the spigot before filling.

On bottling day, I always siphon my Star San into the bottling bucket to sanitize both the tubing and bucket prior to bottling. Another benefit is that if I do leave the valve on the bottling bucket open, at least I only lose Star San - not beer.

 

[kombat]

I store all my equipment with all valves wide open. I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but hear me out. First, it allows them to dry more thoroughly after cleaning. But the main advantage is that by knowing that all valves are always fully open, it's become instinct for me to check/close any valves on any vessels before doing anything with them. Sort of like how some electricians work with the power on, because then they treat EVERY wire like a live wire, rather than eventually touching a wire they assumed was dead and finding out it's actually hot.

 

[kristiismean]

I bought a new spigot for my bottling bucket (I don't use it for fermenting) that was marked off/on so i know looking at it.

And I use it for my primary bucket for my star-san. then fill up each bottle through my wand set up with about 1 inch of star-san, shake, put upside down on my fast rack (also sanitized). then transfer it to another 5 gallon and but the beer.

i only lost star san 5 times before buying a new spigot that was marked..

 

[brewmore71]

Hello, pretty new to this, on my 7th brew
While getting ready to bottle last batch last night, after adding priming solution to bucket i proceeded to siphon from primary then left area to do some quick sanitizing.
Came back few minutes later to see beer leaking out spigot. Quickly turned off after losing about one to two bottles.
Instantly my concern was that all priming solution was near bottom and I'm not sure how much was left for carbonating 4.5 gallons of beer.
I bottled and will hope for the best....
Just when i thought i had this part down!

 

[rtstrider]

May be a rookie mistake here. On my first ever bottling session I poured the priming solution at the bottom of the bottling bucket and just siphoned around it. No stirring or anything. Thinking we may be playing beer roulette in 2-3 weeks