Safety Issues in Homebrewing

[brewmonk]

A table collapse would suck. I just added getting crushed above.
... (I couldn't be a sub-mariner, I get short of breath with just a snorkel)

hey, who has safety screens/bars on their grainmills if they are motorized??

 

[Dalarast]

If brewing inside I use my stove so biggest issues for me is moving boiling water/wort and handling glass corboys. I handle both these issues by slow moving of wort/water and carrying carboy from the bottom or the simple bear-hug (always dry carboy prior to handling). The only thing I should add would be some sort of slip-free matting.

Outside I use a propane burner and follow the same tactics; but I also add that I avoid roasting marshmallows under the pretty blue flame

I have a fully supplied med kit in my house and fear the day that I need it since I think the SWMBO would panic or hate being yelled at me on how to dress any wound that she would tell me to f' off and die already... I actually only have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen and have not thought of carrying it with me in to the backyard when brewing. I guess I figure that unless I catch myself on fire (would be hard to put myself out) I have insurance and would get the kids and wife out of the house and sit outside and watch it burn.... and then call 911 halfway through..

 

[mordantly]

Do you fireproof your brewing area? Brew with a fire extinguisher, a CO detector, first aid kit, ventilation? wood v.s. metal? gfci's? drink while you brew?

drink like a fish, especially during beer breeding. no exer..yet but that will be for welding, and shop safety considering how much compressed gases and explosive/fmammables i posess, not for brewing with 100k btu burner. and another exer will be in the house near my sleeping room (home safety). no co^x alarms. i jump outta the way of spilling boiling wort/falling objects when all possible. ventillation? nah! it's only propane! i open the service door to the shop.

 

[brewmonk]

do you own or rent?

 

[pnj]

Last time I brewed, I had my weiner hanging out of my pants, at my girlfriends request.....

 

[joejaz]

My problem is seeing something start to fall - it's tough to stop from trying to grab it, boiling or not. Sharp or not.

I brew outside and made a safety chain. I attach a chain around the opening in the keggle and attach the other end to a tree branch. Got the idea from watching an old western movie on TCM. They were hanging a guy from a tree who was sitting on top of a horse. When they pulled the horse away the man was just hanging there from the tree branch. Seemed pretty effective. We did a dry run with 15 gallons of water and did not spill a drop. I'm looking into getting an old kids swing set A frame so i can attach three chains & keggles to it at once. SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT!

 

[brewmonk]

so when are you going to 'wind them up' and try for a centrifugal trub separation in the boiler?

 

[joejaz]

so when are you going to 'wind them up' and try for a centrifugal trub separation in the boiler?

It's funny you should say that, because me and my son were just talking about attaching a swivel fitting on the chain. I don't think we could turn it fast enough though to create a centrifugal force.

 

[brewmonk]

Well, I started this as a SAFETY thread, so I will NOT be recommending a motorized *anything* here (but will secretly hope for the youtube link).

 

[joejaz]

Well, I started this as a SAFETY thread, so I will NOT be recommending a motorized *anything* here (but will secretly hope for the youtube link).

so you think we can motorize it?

 

[brewmonk]

Anything can be motorized, eventually. (Wouldn't get you anything, I don't think.)

Although it would be fun to see an old lawnmower, chained up in a tree, wildly spinning an out of control boiler kettle - flailing around in 200+ degree scalding death wobble.
(soundtrack: ....... oooooohhhh [BEEEP])

 

[brewmonk]

kettle of death? beuhler?