Just in case, like me, you happen to be an idiot

[kmlavoy]

If your barleycrusher is doing nothing but spitting full uncrushed grains into your bucket, try reversing the direction on your drill.

 

[homebrewer_99]

...right up there with going down in an elevator...Mr. Tyler...hehehe!!!

 

[seawort]

been there, done that, had a brew "helper" and couldn't figure out why it was taking so damn long to get grain crushed...

 

[Brew-boy]

Ya like me leaving the ball valve open when filling the HLT, ERRRRRR!!!!

 

[Jack]

Ya like me leaving the ball valve open when filling the HLT, ERRRRRR!!!!

That's still better than the time I left the spigot on my bottling bucket open when I started racking into it...

 

[Alemental]

Or putting a cobra tap that was locked in the open position onto a keg. And that at a graduation party with a crowd watching.

 

[FSR402]

I found out last week that a picknic tap will not hold back 40psi.

 

[kmlavoy]

I'm glad I'm not the only one then.

 

[conpewter]

I've done that before when I first got my mill. I even ran the grain through my reverse mill twice and got a crappy crush Spun it the other way with the drill and it was sweeeet.

Also my keg bled out all over my floor the first time I used it, draining the first runnings into it, with the ball-valve open...

 

[fratermus]

That's still better than the time I left the spigot on my bottling bucket open when I started racking into it...

I've done this on both mlt and bottling bucket.

 

[wildwest450]

Wow, what a bunch of ****s.

 

[IrregularPulse]

Did the bottling bucket valve open during racking last week. only lost a tiny bt cause i was lucky enough to feel it dripping on my barefoot.

 

[Seabee John]

there is a reason that I have a keg of beer aptly named "Garage Floor Brown". It was all I could do but cry when I left my valve open on the brew kettle (with a hose attached and run into the bucket of cleaning water-) I couldn't hear my first runnings flowing out of the kettle until the bucket over flowed. I took the second and third runnings, added 2# of DME and finished the brewday....

oh, that reminds me.... tighten all your hose clamps boys.... I've also sent 1st runnings shooting into the air like a fountain... that sucks too.

 

[Kauai_Kahuna]

The sins against beer are too many to list, but one of my best was kegging a batch, put on both air and beer fittings to ensure a proper fit, got distracted came back and started force carbing the keg. heard a strange sound and realized I had stout spraying out the beer out fitting all over my kitchen, living room and computer. I just hope I never make that mistake again. I can't even laugh over it years later, what a waste of good beer.

 

[DubbelDach]

Or putting a cobra tap that was locked in the open position onto a keg. And that at a graduation party with a crowd watching.

Been there, done that. Were you squatting with the cobra tap on your "lap" when you did it too?

 

[Alemental]

Been there, done that. Were you squatting with the cobra tap on your "lap" when you did it too?

Nope. I was standing and pointing the fargin thing at my belly.

 

[EvilTOJ]

At least you didn't try to rack 6 gallons of beer into 5 gallons of carboy. Glad it was in the kitchen when that happened.

 

[evolute99]

We were mashing dad's 10 gallon batch of IPA, after we just finished my 5 gallon batch of Irish Red. After we mashed for 60 min, we open the valve to mash out and nothing. A Stuck Mash, the manifold was full of grains and sugars from the previous batch. So we had to pick up 30lbs of wet grains and dump them into another container. We went and blew out the manifold. Now if we have a slow or stuck mash we hook a pump up and suck it now.

 

[jds]

At least you didn't try to rack 6 gallons of beer into 5 gallons of carboy. Glad it was in the kitchen when that happened.

On a similar note, 5.5 gallons of beer will not fit into a 5 gallon corny keg. Trust me on this.