One line "Ooops"

[Yooper]

I started a siphon with 6 gallons of red wine, and walked away for a second. It was a 5 gallon carboy. Oops!

 

[Orpheus]

On Saturday I was busily brewing away and went to re-hydrate my yeast. I forgot to test the temperature of the water until it was too late. Turns out it was 110 F. Luckily the beer took off just fine.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Dropped screwdriver in wort trying to tighten lose chiller hose. Beer was good though.

Dropped a hammer in secondary while racking. The hammer was being used to tilt the primary and i accidentally bumped it. Beer was good in my case, too.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Guy at my LHBS told me that he once accidentally used his bucket of sanitizer as top-off water. He's been using Iodophor ever since........:cross:

 

[EdWort]

I left a starter next to my gas stove and SWMBO decided to boil something for a long time without moving it. It was my last batch of Wyeast 3068 that I wanted to propagate. Doh, the exposure killed the yeast. Oh well, live and learn.

 

[EdWort]

Guy at my LHBS told me that he once accidentally used his bucket of sanitizer as top-off water. He's been using Iodophor ever since........:cross:

Now if that would have been StarSan, his beer would have turned out great!

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Now if that would have been StarSan, his beer would have turned out great!

It WAS Star-San, that's why he did it! He uses Iodophor now because it is a different color and can't be mistaken for plain water!

 

[adx]

This past weekend I brewed a small 2.5 gallon batch of BierMuncher's Ode to Arthur Guinness clone. Everything went pretty well.

Tonight I was cleaning up and I ended up finding the pound of flaked wheat that I forgot to put into the mash. I thought the grist looked a little thin, but didn't really think anything about it. So I guess we'll see how this turns out.

 

[the_bird]

Guiness shouldn't have flaked wheat anyway. Base malt, flaked barley, roasted barley.

 

[Llarian]

Forgot to close the valve on my mash tun after preheating. Ended up with a lot of grainy water on my porch and my strike temp was way off.

Ended up being one of my best beers though. =)

-D

 

[brewman !]

My worst oops occurred about 7 years ago. I had a peach wine in secondary fermentation in a corny keg. It had a lot of pulp in it.

Because it was still fermenting, the keg pressured up. At first I tried to release the pressure via the inlet and outlet tubes, but the tubes and valves plugged. Even the inlet tube. And the more I released, the more it foamed up and the more CO2 it wanted to release, like a really foamy soda pop.

After half an hour of dicking around, I got the pressure down enough that I could push the lid down a bit. I thought that would be an easy way to releave the rest of the pressure without a ton of foam. So I gave the lid a good push and as soon as I did, it only partially unseated and started blowing half fermented peach juice everywhere ! Tried as I might, I couldn't get the lid loose and I couldn't get it seated. So there I was with a keg blowing peach juice everywhere. And the more it blew, the more it seemed to release CO2.

Luckily I was in the basement laundry room with had concrete walls and floors and an unfinished ceiling. By the time it pressured down, it blew half the keg all over the room. I threw out the rest.

Morals from this story ?

1) pulpy worts/musts need special valves to get into and out of corny kegs
2) never close ferment in a corny. It needs some pressure relief
3) never try to remove a corny lid under pressure

There are probably more, I just can't think of them at the moment.

 

[OneHotKarl]

So here it is, this has got to be up there. After doing 4 or 5 12 gallon all grains I was doing a quick extract 5 gallon batch to show a friend the process. As we get the wort to about 80F he asks when we add the extract. Haha, i guess we drank a little too much during the process!?

 

[l3lackEyedAngels]

I've got two:

Pitched my yeast at over 80F once. The end product was an atrocity. Oops.

Stored 12 bottles in a beat-up carboard case. The box broke while I was moving out of my apartment and three bottles fell out and broke on my bare foot. I didn't get cut, but I had just cleaned the floor. Oops.

 

[the_bird]

Shiz-it. Just realized that I made my starter last night with half as much water as I should have - so I'm trying to get the bock yeast growing in 1090 wort instead of 1045. Damn, I thought it looked a little viscous! Oops!

 

[SiB57]

Two weekends ago, I poured my 4th glass out of my keg of Apfelwein for my sister to try. 5 minutes later we notice a large puddle of something next to the keggerator. When I closed the door it hit the picnic tap that I was using for that keg , locking it open between the keg and the door and emptying 4 gallons - 4 glasses of Apfelwein into my fridge. Awesome. Convinced the wife that i needed two more faucets for the outside instead of relying on picnic taps tho

 

[Cheesefood]

Didn't standardize hose sizes and barbs when building my setup. Now I have an HLT and MLT with a 1/2" barb and a keggle, pump, and CFC all on 3/8".

I'd recommend picking a size and standardizing around that size.

 

[dinks]

Tried to chill wort in an ice bath, but left the lid on the boiling pot....

 

[Cheesefood]

Didn't thoroughly rinse oxyclean out of a keg. Ended up tasting like ass. I had to dump.

 

[mummasan]

I usually brew on my patio - but because of rain I brewed in my carport. Burned both my hands attempting to put sparge water in my mash tun. I picked up a pot of water that had been heating up on my propane burner and halfway to the mash tun I realized I forgot to use the potholders...oops

Later during the same brew session I was sanitizing my glass carboy. It had maybe one gallon of water in it. As I held it out to empty the sanitizer it slipped, fell and broke on my driveway. Some glass cut my heel and still have a scar...oops.

To finish my brew, I was walking around with a bloody paper towel around my heel and a plastic bag of ice for the blisters on my hands. The beer turnout out ok...not my best though.

I will never, ever brew in my carport again.

 

[the_bird]

I usually brew on my patio - but because of rain I brewed in my carport. Burned both my hands attempting to put sparge water in my mash tun. I picked up a pot of water that had been heating up on my propane burner and halfway to the mash tun I realized I forgot to use the potholders...oops

Later during the same brew session I was sanitizing my glass carboy. It had maybe one gallon of water in it. As I held it out to empty the sanitizer it slipped, fell and broke on my driveway. Some glass cut my heel and still have a scar...oops.

To finish my brew, I was walking around with a bloody paper towel around my heel and a plastic bag of ice for the blisters on my hands. The beer turnout out ok...not my best though.

I will never, ever brew in my carport again.

See, the lesson I would have picked up would have been to invest in Better Bottles...

 

[Lil' Sparky]

I think this was my biggest "oops". https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?p=223796#post223796

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

Turned the valve on the bottling bucket before hooking up the tube. Stared at the beer puddle for 10 sec or so before I realized. Ooops.

If you haven't done that before, you haven't been brewing long enough. I can clearly remember at least 3 times I've left the damn spigot open. I always tend to walk away for minute too.

 

[Cheesefood]

I think this was my biggest "oops". https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?p=223796#post223796

This always makes me laugh. Thanks.

 

[c.n.budz]

Turned the valve on the bottling bucket before hooking up the tube. Stared at the beer puddle for 10 sec or so before I realized. Ooops.

Kinda along these lines.... I took my bottling bucket apart to clean it, forgot to put the inside washer back in, started filling the bottling bucket and beer started flowing out from around the spigot. Made quite a mess and I lost a couple gallons of brew....

 

[BeerSponge]

Decided to shake the yeast starter to dislodge the yeast from the bottom. Apparently there was some pressure buildup. My kitchen got a yeast shower.

 

[JnJ]

I usually brew on my patio - but because of rain I brewed in my carport. Burned both my hands attempting to put sparge water in my mash tun. I picked up a pot of water that had been heating up on my propane burner and halfway to the mash tun I realized I forgot to use the potholders...oops

Later during the same brew session I was sanitizing my glass carboy. It had maybe one gallon of water in it. As I held it out to empty the sanitizer it slipped, fell and broke on my driveway. Some glass cut my heel and still have a scar...oops.

To finish my brew, I was walking around with a bloody paper towel around my heel and a plastic bag of ice for the blisters on my hands. The beer turnout out ok...not my best though.

I will never, ever brew in my carport again.

How do you blame the location for these oops? I think it was to much of this leading to this .

 

[hialtitude]

I sanitized all my bottles for two batches last night before I realized I was out of corn sugar.

 

[BrewBrain]

Put IC into boiling wort before hooking up hoses. Water left inside the IC from previous brew heated up and spewed forth, slightly burning the little piggy that went to market. Will not be brewing without closed toe shoes in the future.

 

[Sea]

Started sparging into my keggle, walked away for a few, came back and the driveway was drinking my beer. Guess I should close that valve in the future.

 

[HenryHill]

ehhh, the expanding perception of theme here is .....mainly......'I turned around around/walked away/did this while I waited/decided to do that while I waited for this'............'and when I looked back.........' !!

MANNN, one thing at a time, one thing at a time!