Ceegeesbrew
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Been brewing going on 3 years and finally had that day where it makes you question if you want to keep going. Brewing on a brewzilla 9gal set up I made some late season Oktoberfest. First sign of a nightmare brew day my plug for brewzilla seems to have melted into my extension chord from the heat, I’m a full time hvac technician so it’s no big deal to cut the chord and put a new plug on it but I’m just ranting here. I’m brewing in south Louisiana so right after I noticed that we had a bad storm coming so I had to be quick about finishing up (I brew outside under a small carport). My kids inside are trying to come out and play under the carport, anyone who brews and has small children knows those little curious crotch goblins want to help and be involved and don’t realize there’s 220° boiling sugar water in that “shiny thing”. I put my wert chiller in during the boil, get everything ready, then like the human I am forget to turn the water on. Fast forward about 10 minutes it’s starting to rain it’s butt off so I start to transfer my NOT COOLED wert to my glass fermenter. CRACK! So now I’m loosing beer all over the car port, I have no other fermenter so I transfer to a recently cleaned keg. Takes me a week to get to my home brew shop to get a new fermenter, and their all out of glass, have to use a bucket (which I have never used). Pitch yeast, put in keezer. Put blow off tube in glass of water with star San, go about my day. Two days later I go to check on it. Glass tipped over no water or star San left, blow off tube is just hanging out. And I can’t see inside the bucket to tell if fermentation even took place. This is all issues that could have been avoided. But please tell me someone else has had the nightmare brew day as well. I’m fearful for my next batch, also it’s a competition beer so brew day will now be on red alert!
just needed to vent to other people who know the struggle
If the Oktoberfest turns out consumable I’ll put it in the thread
Cheers
just needed to vent to other people who know the struggle
If the Oktoberfest turns out consumable I’ll put it in the thread
Cheers