So, I had a bit of a party on Friday night. What was supposed to be a couple of friends over for chili and games, turned into about 15 people and drinking games. Anywho, I had three kegs in the chest freezer; an IPA that was just about gone, an ESB that was very good and was over half full, and a Dubbel that is still carbing/conditioning. I finished off the IPA pretty early in the night; there was only a pint or two left. Then I moved on to the ESB. Probably after my third or fourth pint, I was filling another one and I guess when I put the tap back in (haven't built my collar yet, still using picnic taps) I laid it on one of the kegs with the button sticking up in the air. So, when I closed the lid of the chest freezer, it depressed the button on the tap. Obviously, when I came back to get another pint, the keg was empty, but the chest freezer was full of about two gallons of ESB. Then, the worst part of it all, is for whatever reason, the drain on the freezer wasn't working and I had to suck it all out with a turkey baster...ugh.
Anyway, for all intents and purposes I am now out of homebrew. The Dubbel is close, probably be ready by this weekend, but it is not the type of brew you sit around and drink six pints of. Plus, it probably wont reach it's peak for at least two more weeks. I have an American ale cold conditioning right now, so it will probably be ready in two weeks, a california common needing to go to secondary, and I am going to brew this weekend, so it wont be long before I am back up and running, but it has been a LONG time since I have been out of homebrew. I didn't think I would ever run out.
However, I learned a long time ago that you cant dwell on stuff like this and with every bad thing that happens, there is usually some sort of silver lining. So, I look at it as an opportunity to clean my chest freezer that was previously getting pretty gunky. It is nice and clean now
Anyway, for all intents and purposes I am now out of homebrew. The Dubbel is close, probably be ready by this weekend, but it is not the type of brew you sit around and drink six pints of. Plus, it probably wont reach it's peak for at least two more weeks. I have an American ale cold conditioning right now, so it will probably be ready in two weeks, a california common needing to go to secondary, and I am going to brew this weekend, so it wont be long before I am back up and running, but it has been a LONG time since I have been out of homebrew. I didn't think I would ever run out.
However, I learned a long time ago that you cant dwell on stuff like this and with every bad thing that happens, there is usually some sort of silver lining. So, I look at it as an opportunity to clean my chest freezer that was previously getting pretty gunky. It is nice and clean now