Learn from my mistakes

[dstuckrn]

Well I started brewing last spring, with a couple of extract batches then jumped to all grain and it's been a learning experience with every batch. Here are some of the mistakes I have made

Overcarbonated by not measuring prepackaged priming sugar-measure priming sugar myself now

Lost 1/2 of first runnings by leaving keggle valve open and walking away while draining-double check valves are closed obsessively

Fermented at too high of temp- now using swamp cooler

Underpitched yeast- I now make starters

Didn't boil down to correct volume watered down batch-marked volume on brew spoon to be more accurate

Any other additions anyone? We can all benefit from learning from each others mistakes.

 

[badbrew]

Exploding bottles from bottling unfinished beer that fermented in too cold fridge.