One line "Ooops"

[Orfy]

Poured my wort in the kettle with the spigot open.
Only realised when I felt my foot getting wet.

 

[Alamo_Beer]

Lost my hydrometor so I couldn't measure efficiency yesterday...

Tried to "rebuild" my MLT on Saturday night and the silicon hadn't sealed so I leaked boiling water on the kitchen floor...

Had to mash in my brewpot and quickly made a manifold out of CPVC to stick in an ale pale...had the great idea to put a hop bag over it and got a stuck sparge...had to dump the grain back into the brewpot and take the bag off....

Miscalculated my mash/sparge water and ended up with 4gallons in the fermenter...

Promised too many people too little beer!

 

[Rhoobarb]

Unknowingly came into contact with poison ivy on my neck, left ear and face while harvesting my Cascade hops three weeks ago. My rash peaked just in time to fly out to New Hampshire for a wedding and to meet my future mother-in-law for the first time. Nice.

I'm still recovering.

 

[Orfy]

Started to syphon the contents of my carboy into a keg and went to do something else.

Came back to remember I brew 25 litres and the keg is only 19 Litres.

Good job my floor is tiled.

 

[DeathBrewer]

i've forgotten irish moss in my last 3 batches and i don't really use secondaries.

some of my friends might complain it isn't very clear, but i don't mind so screw them

 

[Orfy]

Forgot that when starting a syphon with CO2 you need the tiniest shot, not a handful.


Good job the carboy cap blew and not the carboy!!!!!!!!!

 

[Reverend JC]

Was sending wort thru chiller then into carboy. Pretty easy and didnt need to be present and could clean.........wrong. Tube slipped off boiling kettle and hot wort was not making it into the chiller but onto the garage floor.

 

[Orfy]

First time using my Immersion chiller I melted the wheel on my grill with the output.

 

[the_bird]

Real minor things, but I've twice stretched the limits of what "high temp" tubing really means in the context of propane flame. Saturday, I looked at the output line on my wort chiller, and saw that it was in two pieces (chiller was in the boil). Melted it clean in half, sealed up the end so I had to cut the tubing real short. Oops!

 

[dblvsn]

Had just built my cooler mash tun, had everything setup in a tier. Began brewing and noticed my burner was totally melting my new cooler. Have a heat shield now

 

[user 574]

OK, that's like witbeer territory; what's that, like 2 SRM?

That's what I'm saying but she was using the SWM(BO) scale and the back pain is making her beotchy.

 

[talleymonster]

i've forgotten irish moss in my last 3 batches and i don't really use secondaries.

some of my friends might complain it isn't very clear, but i don't mind so screw them

If they want clear beer tell them to go buy some Miller Chill!:rockin:

 

[enginerd]

Learned the hard way that my vacuum cleaner has an attachment perfect for getting floating thermometer buckshot weights out of the garbage disposal...



The second time.
(Bi-metal from now on)

 

[Nyxator]

Added my immersion chiller to the last 10 min of the wort boil and ended up letting the vinyl hose get too close to the propane burner. It melted the end I needed to hook the chiller up to my faucet, and I had to do a last minute repair. Putting the vinyl hose on the 212 degree copper was... interesting. :rockin:

 

[Fingers]

Ok, I think it was three white lies over the weekend. 1st, a backgrounder. She hurt/has a bad back (spine L3/L4) and I had to do pretty much all of the house cleaning.

Sat morning house cleaning
swmbo: Did you use windex on all of the glass/marble tables in the living room?
Desert: Yes dear (busted).

Sat night party (I was supposed to be DD but she wasn't really drinking)
swmbo: How many jello shots and beers did you have?
Desert: 2 & 3. Wrong she was watching & counting. It was 3 & 4. I just lost count .

Sun morning NFL at the bar and the rest of the day.
I didn't really do anything wrong but somehow guilt was set upon me as I left for the bar and then brought a buddy home and we polished off the IPA. Guess she wanted me to be more productive on Sun.

Good to be back to work!! :rockin:

You do the housework and then she counts your drinks? That's uh, uh.....

Hey, you missed a spot, Cinderella.

 

[lackofstyl]

Turned water on in the bathtub to cool my warm primary. Left the bathroom and got side tracked. Came back to a sideways primary floating in a bathtub that was just starting to flow water over the top. OOPSIE

 

[aekdbbop]

Also melted tubing of my IC.. twice.. you would think that i would have learned the first time..

 

[Neomich]

Added extermely hot water to the plastic container my LME came it to get all the extract out. Re-sealed the lid to shake the water up and found out real quick how powerful steam pressure can be. First time I had to clean a ceiling.

 

[Evets]

Turned my back on a near boiling keggle. Two batches in a row. Who says you can't have a boil-over in a keggle?

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

Added my immersion chiller to the last 10 min of the wort boil and ended up letting the vinyl hose get too close to the propane burner. It melted the end I needed to hook the chiller up to my faucet, and I had to do a last minute repair. Putting the vinyl hose on the 212 degree copper was... interesting. :rockin:

x2, did that the weekend before this past one...little duct tape was the short term solution.

also hooked up the liquid out disconnect to a keg with a picnic tap...that was open....and I had just been telling myself to close it, as I opened it to make it easier to grip when pushing into the tubing.

I also now have a keg that has been sitting upside down in oxyclean since saturday (it is now monday), haven't had time to deal with it.

 

[pjj2ba]

I was boiling a second set of priming solution for my second batch and turned on the wrong burner and didnt realize it. I went downstairs and was called back up by my wife. The package of oatmeal bars on the stove were burning very nicely. I quickly grabbed the burning bits and threw them in the sink. The heat melted one of the frames for the halogen light over the stove.

 

[milkjuggz]

pitched a tube of White Labs yeast past it's "best-by" date, and then waited three days for airlock activity RDWMAFS

relax, don't worry, make a friendly starter!

 

[mrk305]

On my first batch, while waiting for wort to boil I went outside to smoke. I had to take the stove apart to clean the boilover. Same batch, three weeks later I put a 22oz. bottle of stout on the top shelf of the refridgerator and it got pushed to the back. It froze and broke. I had to take out all the food and clean all the shelves and drawers.

 

[tbulger]

Muslin bag hanging over the side of a 16qt kettle on a turkey fryer burner.

 

[John Beere]

Umm, I'd have to say pretty much destroying the stovetop when the weather turned bad: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=10928

$2,400 later, that mistake it paid for in full!

 

[Evan!]

Made a starter for hefe slurry that was fresh from a conical at a local micro. Wouldn't have, but I've had his slurry take forever to start previously, so I was being safe. Came home at lunch to a nice blowoff. So I split the starter into two 1-gallon jugs, added more wort, put a rubber stopper in one and a universal stopped in the other. Put them in the utility sink in case they blew off again and made another mess. Went back to the office. Wife came home before me and, without checking the sink, did a load of laundry. Well, because of a slow-draining P-trap at the main stack (and because of the laws of physics) when our washer exhausts its dirty water, it fills up the utility sink halfway. She knows this, she just forgot to check. So I come home to two starter jugs floating sideways in nasty soapy dirty water. My eyes got big as saucers. I pulled them out, and somehow, some way, the rubber stopper had held tight. I sprayed the **** out of it with starsan, and prayed. The universal stopper, OTOH, had come out and was probably infected/contaminated. So I tossed it. Pitched the other starter into my Stunkelweizen, and it had excellent attenuation and tastes great in the fermenter. Disaster averted. Does the wife take any responsibility, though? Nah. My fault. All my fault.

 

[John Beere]

Took advice from this book back in the day: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=9844

 

[Evan!]

Took advice from this book back in the day: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=9844

Holy God...what in the HELL? It's like a joke.

 

[Fish]

had a pretty amber in the secondary just a day away from bottling it took a gravity reading but I didn't clean the thief. Looked at it the next day and it was covered in mold.

 

[Brewsmith]

I did a stovetop extract brew and put immersion chiller in pot with hose from outside through window for water, went outside and turned on the water, came back inside to find the line slipped off and there was a lake on the kitchen floor. Oops! The kitchen never looked cleaner after a brew session.