injury

[BrokeCollegeStudent]

Alright, question, anyone been injured from brewing beer. Chemically, not from heavy lifting or anything...

Ive heard that crap can blow up, and chems can blast in your face, causing injury...
Just getting into this stuff, so i was wondering what to stay away from and if this legend is true..

please help

 

[wild]

My great uncle lost an eye to a bottle bomb during Prohibition. But now days, most injuries are the same as those received in the kitchen.

Wild

 

[Torchiest]

Nothing worse than a little hot water/wort splashing on my hands. Hardly even a 1st degree burn. Ha, and the time a fermentation smelled like sulphur. Almost knocked me out!

 

[the_bird]

There have been a good number of people who have had glass carboys break, either from thermal shock or seemingly at random, and have had to get themselves sewn up. It's a pretty strong argument for going to Better Bottles.

 

[desiderata]

I think you'd have to put some pretty strange ingredients in your beer to cause chemical explosions.

 

[abracadabra]

Most of all you need good common sense. Do your brewing sober. Alcohol, boiling hot liquids, open flames and glass containers can combine to ruin your weekend. Read up on what to do. John Palmer has a web site and book "How to Brew" that is excellent.

If people are always saying "you don't have any common sense" it might not be a hobby for you.

But it's not inherently dangerous.

 

[Cheesefood]

I threw out my back ROTFLMAO at makingitgood's recipes.

 

[david_42]

Unless you try using caustic soda to clean stainless steel items, the chemicals involved in homebrewing aren't dangerous. Since you're broke, you won't be buying SS in the first place.

 

[Ivan Lendl]

There are certain poisons created in the fermentation process that can be harmfull if imbibed excessively causing a prolonged deficiency of thiamine which can lead to the disease beriberi. Symptoms include gastrointestinal disturbances, mental confusion, muscular weakness, paralysis, and heart enlargement.

Other than that and bottle bombs its totally risk free!

 

[brewhead]

Alright, question, anyone been injured from brewing beer. Chemically, not from heavy lifting or anything...

Ive heard that crap can blow up, and chems can blast in your face, causing injury...
Just getting into this stuff, so i was wondering what to stay away from and if this legend is true..

please help

woah now that's extreem brewing! bout the only thing i've seen in my brewshed is people having too much to drink and falling off the ladder

 

[Brewing Clamper]

Yeah, most of my brewing related injuries occur during the "sampling and quality control" process.