Homebrew facepalms

[Thirdthorpe]

I think you mentioned something about this earlier and I have no idea how a dish towel will get that thing out. I'm definitely willing to try. I thought maybe you mistook what I said for meaning the gasket on a brew bucket. I'm all ears.

 

[NathPowe]

On my 2nd AG batch I mashed in and was all stoked - temps were perfect, smelled great, life was good - until I looked over and saw my copper manifold sitting on the table...

 

[ox45]

I think you mentioned something about this earlier and I have no idea how a dish towel will get that thing out. I'm definitely willing to try. I thought maybe you mistook what I said for meaning the gasket on a brew bucket. I'm all ears.

[ame]http://youtu.be/0KDgDnvGCfc[/ame]

 

[JuanMoore]

I think you mentioned something about this earlier and I have no idea how a dish towel will get that thing out. I'm definitely willing to try. I thought maybe you mistook what I said for meaning the gasket on a brew bucket. I'm all ears.

Edit: Ha! I'm slow today.

 

[dfc]

I got my siphon ready to transfer beer to bottling bucket. Looked in the bucket and saw "liquid" in the bottom. Though I I left sanitizer in there. Quickly poured it out. Started syphoning and reached for my sugar water. Uhoh.

I've totally done this.

 

[dfc]

It was my first batch. I was siphoning into my bottling bucket and left the spigot open. I lost about a six pack and gained a very sticky floor before I realized what I had forgotten to do. I had to mop the dining room floor 3 times before it ceased to be sticky.

 

[WDT]

Don't try to carbonate a keg at room temperature then dry hop said keg immediately.

I set a keg to 30 PSI, shook the hell out of it and let it sit a couple days off the gas. I then opened up the keg to add some hops (setting the lid out of quick reaching distance). I had a huge gush of double ipa all over the carpet. Before I could set the keg lid again.

I was more mad about the loss of beer than I was about the mess that took me a couple hours to clean.

 

[Thirdthorpe]

Ok, I just watched those videos and that would have been labeled as "PFM" if I were still in the Coast Gaurd. Thanks, by the way.

 

[pukexxr]

-noticed cooled priming sugar water on stove after bottles capped (used conditioning tablets and recapped)
-clogged autosiphons with hops bc i didnt stick a hop bag/whatever on the end of it (managed to unclog by removing bits of hops, over and over and over)
-broke racking canes trying to remove rubber hose without heating it up first (bought another one that was the wrong size)
-broke a glass thermometer in a brew +/- at flameout (got a metal one that seems more accurate, less fragile)
-pitched a yeast based on the packet description, pitched it, started reading about the bubblegum/banana bread esters produced by this strain in my IPA after pitching (beer turned out okay)

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Man, I was dying reading these! Guilty of several things including losing a hydrometer and finding it in the fermenting bucket a few weeks later, breaking a hydrometer in a bucket, leaking 1/2 tank of co2 and not shutting off the tank or regulator beforehand. Leaving a valve open on the bottling bucket, dumping the last bit of beer from the bottling bucket all over my back as I tilted the bottle over too far trying to get it all out...

 

[roastquake]

"Whiskey bottles are NOT made for carbonated beverages" says me after and Evan Williams bottle explodes, soaking the inside of an Amish country cabinet

 

[cluckk]

Filled and corked a entire batch of mead, then during cleanup found the acid blend that was supposed to be in the mead.

Using a pump to circulate ice water through my wort chiller when, as I walked by, the return hose "burped", rising up to shoot near boiling water all over my upper torso and right arm. The blisters took a while to heal.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

I got my siphon ready to transfer beer to bottling bucket. Looked in the bucket and saw "liquid" in the bottom. Though I I left sanitizer in there. Quickly poured it out. Started syphoning and reached for my sugar water. Uhoh.

That sounds awfully familiar!

 

[Thirdthorpe]

TANSTAAFB....combining two of my favorite things; beer and Heinlein. Homebrew, the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived!

 

[TANSTAAFB]

TANSTAAFB....combining two of my favorite things; beer and Heinlein. Homebrew, the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived!

Bravo! Nobody has ever gotten it...even after explanation most don't get it. It amazes me the number of people who've never read Heinlein!

 

[Thirdthorpe]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably one of my all time top favorite books. Its good stuff, and this thread is full of proof that there aint no such thing as a free beer.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably one of my all time top favorite books. Its good stuff, and this thread is full of proof that there aint no such thing as a free beer.

You have excellent taste my friend! I think that might be the best revolutionary book ever written (modern at least) and one of my favorites as well.

 

[scrappy_dingo]

I live in Minnesota and had a late fall brewing session where I turned on the outside water supply to run my wort chiller (temps were near freezing at the time). Several weeks later, after many days and nights of below freezing temps, I realized that I forgot to turn off the outside supply. Oops. Fortunately, my pipes didn't completely freeze, and my brewing career lives to fight another day.

 

[ChuBru]

After imitating my good friends cheech and chong i forgot to add the priming sugar. but luckily i realised once i finished bottling:cross:

 

[TANSTAAFB]

There is always the classic dumping of the stirbar in with the starter...first (& only =] ) time I did it I freaked out and went in to the elbow to grab it. No gloves. No sanitizer. Beer was fine. I now ALWAYS use a spare magnet to secure the stirbar to the flask, retrieve it, and store it stuck to my brew fridge!

 

[Ilan34]

That sounds awfully familiar!

Yup, also done this.
Also dumped my stir bar in with the yeast.
Also splashed maybe half a gallon of wort all over myself, the stove, and the floor while squeezing the bag during my second ever BIAB brew.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

There is always the classic dumping of the stirbar in with the starter...first (& only =] ) time I did it I freaked out and went in to the elbow to grab it. No gloves. No sanitizer. Beer was fine. I now ALWAYS use a spare magnet to secure the stirbar to the flask, retrieve it, and store it stuck to my brew fridge!

Hell, I do that do often I consider it SOP. Usually retrieve it from the strainer of the kitchen sink, because I forget it's in the fermentor when I go to clean it.

 

[hou_me]

Forgot to pitch yeast more than once. On my latest batchmy mash got stuck. I tried clearing it by blowing through the outlet with an air compressor. Don't do that. Unless you like cleaning hot sticky wort off the ceiling.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

Forgot to pitch yeast more than once. On my latest batchmy mash got stuck. I tried clearing it by blowing through the outlet with an air compressor. Don't do that. Unless you like cleaning hot sticky wort off the ceiling.

Thanks a lot, now I'm cleaning hot sticky coffee and snot off my keyboard.:cross:

 

[hou_me]

Thanks a lot, now I'm cleaning hot sticky coffee and snot off my keyboard.:cross:

LOL! Sorry, guess I have to buy you a beer.

 

[pelipen]

The most stupid thing I ever did. It started to pour and get windy, so I thought I'd clip a lightweight towel over the kettle to keep leaves and small birds from falling in. I didn't figure the towel would trap so much steam. I went to do a slick one handed move to flip the towel up, dump in some hops, and move on. Well, the jet of steam scorched the back of my hand and it blistered badly. I spent the rest of the brew day with one hand in ice water. All for a 2.5 gallon test batch. Turned it good in the end.

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[masonsjax]

Sealed a keg lid at about 35 psi (first batch ever i believe). Reset to serving pressure then later hooked up gas connect to the liquid post by mistake. Beer backed up into the gas lines. Fortunately it didn't make it to the regulator body, but i did have to remove the lines for cleaning.

 

[Thirdthorpe]

So not to be a thread necromancer or anything, but I just had myself a little facepalm action.

Yesterday I made my first leap into the world of all-grain brewing and as such I thought it would be a good idea to start with something simple and light in gravity. So naturally I chose a Belgian strong ale with 13.5 pounds of grain. Small and simple right? Any ways, this thing started into an ANGRY fermentation this morning and I just came home from class to find that krausen had clogged the airlock and the lid had been blown wide open. So I snapped the lid back in place and set off to go get an airlock and a blowoff tube. After about 15 minutes I came back down and heard the clogged airlock whistling from the pressure built up behind it promptly before pulling it out and getting a total krausen moneyshot. It didn't even buy me dinner first, either.

Now I'm just hoping that nothing crawled into that bucket while the lid was open, but its winter here and most critters are dead or sleeping so I'm not too concerned.

 

[Thirdthorpe]

One last note! This batch is going to be named "The Embryonic Cronic" because my wife and I recently found out we're expecting our second. I may wait to crack this for the birth day! Cheers!

 

[bigmike99]

Not doing a starter for my 1.091 SG RIS. Then wondering why it conked out at 1.04. Idddddddiot.