My worst brew day yet, what's yours?

[Jtk78]

Not a brew day, but a keg day. Had a keg filled with San Star and was preparing to push it out using CO2 from my keezer. Opened the keezer to find an entire keg's worth of beer in the bottom of it. Forensic analysis found that the connection at the beer line to ball lock connector had come loose and allowed beer to escape. So sad. Lesson learned.

That SUCKS!!! HORRIBLY HORRIBLY bad.

 

[chickypad]

Great stories. Are we counting injuries? I once cut the tip of my finger nearly off while brewing - through the bone and it was hanging by a piece of flesh. I had 15 min to go in the boil and was trying to move my husband's weight bench over near the kettle to sit on while I did the final few additions and waited to set up the chiller. The back was not secured and it slammed down sort of like a guillotine and caught my finger. It's amazing how much a single finger can bleed. I made my husband wait for the end of the boil to drive me to the ED. I think I was in a little bit of shock to be honest, but once I got in the car it started to really hurt and I got sick on the way. It was my first experience with no chill, I ended up pitching the next day and the beer turned out fine.

 

[SEndorf]

.......... I made my husband wait for the end of the boil to drive me to the ED. I think I was in a little bit of shock to be honest, but once I got in the car it started to really hurt and I got sick on the way. It was my first experience with no chill, I ended up pitching the next day and the beer turned out fine.

Entered in the HBT Hall of Fame for hardcore brewing....

 

[chickypad]

In retrospect it was pretty funny. We have to go! ... But I have a flame out addition!... Honey, you're bleeding through the towel!!

 

[gunhaus]

OK - This is not mine, but I literally just heard this brewing woe from a customer who came into my shop this morning. He had heard from another customer that I was a home brewer, and casual chat brought us inadvertently to this topic. He recently relocated to my area from Saginaw. He told me that a couple years ago he set up on a fine Saturday Morning and started to brew up two batches at once. His brew buddy bailed on him, but he set forth anyway. Appropriate water pots and burners were set. A pair of mash tuns. A pair of boiling pots. All the gear, Right in the driveway in front of his house. He mashed the first batch, and started the boil. He had just mashed in the second batch. The temp was higher than he wanted - But no cold water on hand. Not to worry, there were a couple gallons of distilled in the fridge in the basement. He hated to leave an untended boil - WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT CAN GO - But it was a 6.5 gallon wort in a 15 gallon kettle and was humming along nicely. So he took off for the basement. Of course the phone rang and (His Words) Like a fool he answered. It was his mom, and it was 15 minutes before he could get back upstairs. He had visions of wort issues from the high temps, or of an inevitable boil over. But Nope! His stuff was just gone. Coolers, pots, burners, propane, fold up table, gadgets. ALL of it. They did very kindly leave behind the mash and the boiling wort all over his driveway. He said he was thankful of that at least - because he had a hard time convincing the cops he'd been robbed until they looked at the mess! He now brews with electric, in the downstairs brew dungeon of his new home! I gotta think THAT would qualify as a "Bad brew day"

 

[brewswithshoes]

First run after putting together my 3 vessel eherms. Had the 3 vessels across the washer and dryer, middle vessel slightly unlevel. As I was starting to transfer to the boil kettle I decided I needed to adjust that pot. Out of instinct (and pure stupidity) I put my arms around it to give it a slight nudge to one side. Instantly realizing how hot a 168 degree mash out can be.

That beer (now a standing house recipe) is forever known as 2nd Degree Saison.

I didn't go to the ER, but probably should have. Still to this day I can see dark spots from the burns on the inside of my forearms. But 2nd Degree Saison continually remains on tap at my house.

Side comment: I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "What doesn't kill you, requires brief hospitalization"

Made me think of that brew day. [emoji15]