Most worthless piece of equipment?

[Yooper]

I've never used my carboy brush. I rinse the carboys super well after emptying them, and then drain. Then I sanitize before using. I used all my other stuff, as well as borrow stuff from my friend (she has a wort chiller, bottling tree, etc).

Lorena

 

[Torchiest]

Thankfully, I don't have much equipment besides the basic stuff, and I use it all on a regular basis without issues. Of course, I bought an auto-siphon first thing, which means I never touched the regular siphon, and my floating thermometer has given me some trouble here and there, but mostly, everything works the way it should.

 

[Cheesefood]

I've never used my carboy brush. I rinse the carboys super well after emptying them, and then drain. Then I sanitize before using. I used all my other stuff, as well as borrow stuff from my friend (she has a wort chiller, bottling tree, etc).

Lorena

I use mine. I get a lot of crusty krausen on the top of my carboy.

I think my glass carboy was my most unneeded purchase. I'm much more comfortable with plastic buckets - easier to clean and move.

 

[Pumbaa]

My hydrometer

OK yeah I do use it if I am exparmenting or if I get REALLY freeking bored and want to calculater my mash effenciey, but (99% of the time) as soon as the beer hits the fermentor it never sees a hydrometer again.

IMHO the only thing a hydrometer does is make you worry and get ya p1ssed off (which isnt always bad)

 

[Orfy]

Don't use mine.

I use oxyplus and have a million little bubble scrubbers doing it for me.

 

[Ol' Grog]

Bottles, bottle capper and thermometer. The type of thermometer, the glass kind that "float" in the wort. Going digital here someday.

 

[Brew chick]

some thing i'm very surprised not to see on these pages has to be those digital infared thermometers things, mine's of very limited use.

 

[NNE_Brewery]

A few years ago, I bought a carboy cleaner (strips of cloth attached to the end of a big drill bit) from Morebeer.com. The thing didn't work at all.

 

[david_42]

some thing i'm very surprised not to see on these pages has to be those digital infared thermometers things, mine's of very limited use.

That's because I refrained from buying one! Thought about it too long and decided the only thing it would be useful for is checking the kettle while the wort was cooling. A little more cash & I can buy a plate chiller.

 

[LarMoeCur]

#1. 1/2" racking cane - it doesn't syphin any faster and is way harder to start than a 3/8" cane. Plus I should have just got a auto-syphin.

#2. Bottle capper - switched to kegs and will never bottle again.

 

[MriswitH]

So far it has been my racking cane.

The starter kit that I bought in mid-summer came with the racking cane and at the time I didn't think to swap it out for an auto-siphon. Before I even bottled my first batch, I bought an auto-siphon and have never used the racking cane yet. (Well.. aside from it being handy fishing speaker wire in the entertainment center... )

 

[woodstone]

My hydrometer

IMHO the only thing a hydrometer does is make you worry and get ya p1ssed off (which isnt always bad)

I'm with Pumbaa...I've gone through about 5 of them in 10 years and the last one caused me to dump a 5 gallon batch of brown (yep, glass and lead shot in the primary)...THEY SUCK!