Stupidist things ever done.

[Stevo2569]

Well i pulled the last pint from one of my kegs and thought I would go ahead and clean and sanitize. After cleaning I always pull a gallon of starsan through. So I pulled a while and thought to myself, why is this still so dark, after all I rinsed already. After dumping a 1/2 gallon down the drain and another 1/2 in a milk jug I realized, Oh Sh$t, I was pulling the wrong tap. F$$k, I just wasted a bunch of beer. so I chugged the 1/2 I had and have been pissed since.
Anybody else realize they F'ed up before?

 

[Teromous]

I left the valve open on my brew kettle and lost most of the wort from my mash tun while transferring it. It took me a while to realize it, but I just sparged extra and made a smaller beer. I bet the ants had a feast.

 

[jason81]

The other day I poked a hole in my cooler mash tun with a metal thermometer. I was using it to clean some stuff because I was getting ready to brew. Had to go buy the same cooler to fit my manifold and postpone brewing till the next day. I only used it one time too

 

[Stevo2569]

The other day I poked a hole in my cooler mash tun with a metal thermometer. I was using it to clean some stuff because I was getting ready to brew. Had to go buy the same cooler to fit my manifold and postpone brewing till the next day. I only used it one time too

That sucks. I guess all of us have our days.

 

[Stevo2569]

Who would of thought alcohol and stupid things go together?Cheers!

 

[Brutus Brewer]

Not asking my uncle for 5000 dollars to buy AOL stock in 1994 or 1995. I had asked my mom and she politely declined; my uncle, however, an avid stock market participant would have been more than willing. In 2002 that 5000 would have been worth upwards of 10 million.

 

[Teromous]

The other day I poked a hole in my cooler mash tun with a metal thermometer. I was using it to clean some stuff because I was getting ready to brew. Had to go buy the same cooler to fit my manifold and postpone brewing till the next day. I only used it one time too

I have to figure this one out. 1st were you stabbing your cooler or something?? 2nd how thin is the cooler?? I'm just trying to get the mental image of how this happened.

 

[hillhousesawdustco]

was running an ice bath (in a big commercial ss sink with lots of snow) and an immersion chiller. had the kettle full of cooling wort in the sink and was dicking around with the lid while the faucet was running and wasn't paying attention and....must have run about a gallon of water down the lid into the kettle as it was tilted in against the chiller. the beer actually came out pretty great.

 

[Spartan1979]

After I added polyclar to a beer, I realized I had grabbed the wrong container and put a cleaner in it instead. The only batch I've ever drain poured.

 

[Revvy]

We have an entire thread devoted to this sort of thing. What are some of the mistakes you made...where your beer still turned out great!

 

[osagedr]

But if your beer didn't turn out great...

 

[Teromous]

But if your beer didn't turn out great...

Then Revvy would find another thread

 

[Bithead]

Yea, Revvy's like the HBT librarian or something.

 

[jason81]

I have to figure this one out. 1st were you stabbing your cooler or something?? 2nd how thin is the cooler?? I'm just trying to get the mental image of how this happened.

the thermometer was standing up leaning against the side and i **** the lid and it pushed the thermometer down just enought to pierce the bottom

 

[Malticulous]

One time I was chilling wort and was decided to water the grapes with the run off. The hose was a few foot short...

 

[beninan]

We have an entire thread devoted to this sort of thing. What are some of the mistakes you made...where your beer still turned out great!

Well, to be on topic with the title of the thread, I sprayed myself in the eyes with police-issued mace. I work on police cars every now and then. When the cop heard about the ordeal, his response was, "You hit yourself in the eyes?!?! We usually aim for the chest and it's normally powerful enough!!!". In my defence, it was a keychain-mace-sprayer-thing that looked like a Maglight.

 

[Joe_K]

I pushed the rubber grommet through the lid of my fermentor straight into the beer when installing the airlock. I couldn't fish it out with a spoon so I starsan'd my entire arm and picked it out. It was my first batch ever and the only one that's undrinkable. I still have it bottled and try it from time to time. Still no good... I'm pretty sure the fact that I had no idea what I was doing led to the bad beer though.

 

[mummasan]

I've got alot but will only mention two. Bought a used mini fridge to use as a kegerator. It had a freezer in the top that got in the way, so I cut it out. Um...that fridge didn't work after that. Next mini fridge I bought didn't have a freezer area and it is now my kegerator.

But I needed a fermentation chamber so I bought another used mini fridge. This one also had a freezer...so I researched carefully and slowly bent the freezer to the back and out of the way. Success! But I needed a place to insert the temp probe. So I drilled a small hole in the side of the fridge just big enough for the probe. Success! But I wanted to put a grommet in there to keep it airtight...pulled out a bigger drill bit, made the hole bigger and then there was a loud hssst. Umm...that fridge didn't work after that.

 

[jason81]

That sucks about the fridge. I have a fridge that I can fit a 5# co2 tank in if it's leaning on the side. If I bent the freezer tray down everything would fit better but I'm a bit nervous about it.

 

[Teromous]

That sucks about the fridge. I have a fridge that I can fit a 5# co2 tank in if it's leaning on the side. If I bent the freezer tray down everything would fit better but I'm a bit nervous about it.

You might be able to remove the bottom of the freezer entirely. Some of them are designed for this (maybe for cleaning or defrosting). Mine was like this and I just took it out.

 

[a_potter]

I just built a new brew rig over the winter. HERMS type system. We were brewing an english strong ale for the maiden voyage. At that time I hadn't added a priming valve on the pump so I had to constantly monkey with the hoses to get the pump primed at every step. So about 15 minutes into the mash I set everything up to pump through the coil. I'm standing there looking in the mash tun wondering why no wort was coming in the return. Then I look over and realize I had forgotten to reconnect the hose from the top of the coil to the return port. About a gallon of wort shot out of the top port of the coil and all over the work bench and garage floor.