Lets see pics of your homebrewing disasters!

[thirsty4cider]

Just as the title says. bottle bombs, infections, missed steps, lets see it!

 

[hughes_brews]

I switched to Better Bottles after this!

 

[Darth_Trader]

yikes

 

[nabbster]

That sucks. I'd cry if I broke my carboy

 

[thirsty4cider]

that poor carboy!

 

[BrewerinBR]

Here is why:
Got the bottles all washed and ready to go open the bucket and oh $h1t ...

so i bottle a cherry wheat instead..

 

[kadozen]

I'm going to just let it ride, so it might not be a disaster.... right?

 

[SteveLikesBeer]

Whoa, kadozen, that looks like a bucket from a horror movie!

 

[kadozen]

Whoa, kadozen, that looks like a bucket from a horror movie!

Anything worth screwing up is worth doing right. First infection, and I'm cheap so like I said, can't say if this qualifies as a disaster till maybe Christmas

 

[brettwasbtd]

Bottle a sixer to take to a friend. About an hour later get a call from SWMBO screaming "WTF Did you do??? yada yada yada"

notice the pool of pale ale in the bottom...not that bad, right?

WRONG!

I think I only lost about 12 beers thankfully! But still...I then got velcrow to keep the picnic taps from falling and used this incident later to rationalize the purchase of perlicks

 

[lebucheron]

Happened a little over a year ago...
No blow-off tube + rabbits + overeager Nottingham = wet, drunk pets.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/funny-brewing-mishap-pics-347897/

 

[mysteryshrimp]

I probably shouldn't put my credit card statement in a public forum.

 

[DuckiesRevenge]

I posted this in another thread but I lost 5 gal of barleywine and a glass carboy in one shot. Worst part is that it was on carpet and the clean up took 5 days.

 

[DuckiesRevenge]

Here's the picture.

 

[RockfordWhite]

Don't have a picture... But once i had a great brew day... Everything went swimingly... Got the beer cooled down to like 65 degrees, the wort tasted great... Into the ferm bucket, carrying into the kitchen to the ferm closet... Put the bucket down, oops, some wort must have jumped out... Better wipe that up! Wait, more... Let me pick up the bucket... SWOOSH... The bottom of the bucket fell out, dumping 5 gallons of potentially the greatest beer in the world onto my kitchen floor

 

[thirsty4cider]

That sounds awful! one time I put boiling cider into a plastic container and it... melted.

 

[StoneArcher]

That sounds awful! one time I put boiling cider into a plastic container and it... melted.

I've done a similar deal. Glad to hear I'm not alone here.

 

[EasTexan]

Broke my 5 gallon fermenter tonight full of a cream ale 5 minutes after I put it in...

5 hours wasted but a valuable lesson learned...:smack:

 

[thirsty4cider]

Oh my word what in the disaster is this??? THERE'S CIDER EVERYWHERE!!! THERE'S GLASS SHARDS EVERYWHERE!!! IN THE WALLS!!! EVERYWHERE!!!

 

[hayfuhvitezen]

A Belgian white on the left, Christmas ale on the right. Both were a little vigorous as you can tell

 

[roastquake]

That sounds awful! one time I put boiling cider into a plastic container and it... melted.

Yep, I found out the hard way that Better Bottles can only handle up to 140 F.. If only I could read

 

[Renegades_Brew]

A Belgian white on the left, Christmas ale on the right. Both were a little vigorous as you can tell

Had something similar happen to me just yesterday.

Pitched Nottingham in one 6 gallon Pear Cider and Pitched a White Wine Yeast in another 6 gallon Pear cider on the same day.

24 hours later White wine was bubbling away nice and steady. Nottingham wasn't doing anything.

7 days later the white wine was bubbling away just as steady as it was on day one. I noticed that still nothing really was happening and no activity or color change on the Nottingham. Looked closer looked like maybe a little bit of an infection was starting on the top (similar to lacto bubbles).

8 days: White wine still doing its thing. Nottingham/possible lacto infection decided it was time to take off... Had to clean up a good amount from the floor and put a 1" blowoff tube on the carboy. The best part? Temperture sitting nicely at 66 degrees the whole time! Excited for what this will become.

 

[unionrdr]

I went to dry hop my Maori IPA a bit over a week ago,& popped the lid to find this;
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The US-05 yeast got stirred up after dry hopping. The FG had been at 1.015 from an OG of 1.074. That pic was Friday. today the samplw went from this @ 1.012;
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To this this morning;
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Settled yeast;
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Cleaning & sanitizing my stuff to bottle it while the priming solution cools.

 

[thirsty4cider]

Oh no!!

 

[Darwin18]

That looks like a jelly fish in your fermenter.

 

[jakenbacon]

That looks like a jelly fish in your fermenter.

Yes indeed.... A dead, bloated, rotting jellyfish.....

 

[Cider123]

I've had that bottle bomb experience. I walk into the small room where I kept my brew supplies and conditioning bottles. Suddenly, you're like "Wait, why are little shards of brown glass al over the walls?" "Why is the carpet brown?", "Why does this room smell like an old beer and shot joint?"
Then you look at all those other bottles sitting there. They taunt you as if to say "Come and get it big boy"

 

[thirsty4cider]

Then you look at all those other bottles sitting there. They taunt you as if to say "Come and get it big boy"

Oh I know that feeling. Its a little terrifying disarming over pressurized bottles.

 

[adiochiro3]

Unfortunately, no pix, but a couple weeks back I brought an assorted homebrew 6 pack to the office for a friend. I had to stash it under my desk for delivery the next day. I was minutes from grabbing it when -- in a busy office -- one of the bottles exploded. Stopped everybody cold. The mess under the desk wasn't too bad because I had the bottles in a cardboard six-pack carrier and in a bag.

The odd part was that I bottled this batch on 7-2-13. Of course, I did not taste it, but it smelled perfectly fine, so I don't think it was infected. My office smelled great for a couple of days!

 

[unionrdr]

Looking at it now,it does sorta resemble the dead jellyfish we saw in the mornings on Virginia Beach. Scads of them. Maybe re-name the beer "The Thing That Should Not Be"? (Metallica song). Beer looked,smelled,& taste ok,so I got 47 bottles of it yesterday. Gotta cover the boxes of bottles with something just in case I they reach critical mass!...I did use a lower carbonation level as well.