I dumped 14 gallons of beer today

[TAK]

I dumped 14 gallons of beer today. But hey, at least I kegged 15 gallons.

 

[RedlegEd]

I dumped 14 gallons of beer today. But hey, at least I kegged 15 gallons.

So sad for your loss, but happy for your recovery! Ed

 

[Beernik]

I dumped 14 gallons of beer today. But hey, at least I kegged 15 gallons.

Then I am both happy and sad for you.

Why did you have to dump 14 gallons?

 

[Clef051]

I'm sorry for the loss, what happened. Hopefully the other 15 is good enough to make up for what you dumped.

 

[BBQB]

This is what I found today when I opened my bucket
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I bottled it

 

[doug293cz]

This is what I found today when I opened my bucket
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I bottled it

That's gonna have some funk

Store those bottles in a closed plastic tote. Could be some potential glass grenades in the bunch.

Brew on

 

[MVKTR2]

I dumped parts of 3 batches in the past 6 weeks. A 3 gallon batch of barleywine that was over a year old and infected, a dopplebock I tried the ferment warm trick on ythat was horribly estery, and a wee heavy that I didn't oxygenate enough and got a stressed fermentation. Oddly enough these were the first beers I'd dumped in years and years and happened here close together.

Dumping beer while never a good thing is a matter of life, even professional brewers are doing it. If you're not dumping now and again you probably aren't trying new things very often or don't brew enough.

 

[madscientist451]

My pour outs are usually wine and cider experiments that have gone terribly wrong. But recently I've been on a roll, brewing
some experimental beers that haven't worked out. I salvaged them by blending.
Took a Roggenbier brewed with Mandarina Bavaria hops and too much rye and blended about 60/40 with an all LME rye porter that was underattenuated. Didn't really like either one individually, but the blend is at least drinkable. If I run out of cooler space its going into the compost.

 

[TAK]

Then I am both happy and sad for you.

Why did you have to dump 14 gallons?

I'm moving out of my house, and I had several carboys of sour beer projects that I needed to migrate to kegs for travel/storage. One 7 gal carboy was all ethyl acetate. Another 7 gal carboy was just not very good. I did have two other 7 gal carboys and a 1 gal jug that were tasty. I have about 9 more gallons that I need to taste and see what their fate is. So, the casualty count could go up. Hopefully not.

 

[secondbase]

I had to dump a bunch when I moved too. Ethyl Acetate is a *****. Dumped 11 gallons due to that smell.....