Thermometer - It's a Bad Thing

[El Pistolero]

rant follows:

So how can they continue to sell these things, these flimsy instruments that when you brush them across a moth's testicle the moth doesn't even notice (or maybe gets just a little bit excited), but TINK, the bottom is gone and your floating thermometer is now a listing ship, accompanied by weeks, or months of worry as to where that tiny sliver of glass has gone. Is it in your beer? Is it on the floor? Have you already inhaled it, and it's even now working it's way up to you brain, to coerce...to control...to command!

 

[homebrewer_99]

I feel your pain, Brother.

I've only broken 1 therm, but a whole sh*tload of hydrometers...now there's a rant!

 

[user 574]

I've only busted a racking cane thus far but wish I had broken something this evening instead of what did happen to me.

I should start with the fact that I'm dressed like someone of out "Cops". No shoes, socks or shirt. I'm getting a yeast starter boiling on the stove for this weekend with some DME and it clumped up a bit and got stuck on the bottom of the pot. So I grab a spoon and am trying to get the bugger off the bottom. it's not moving. I jam harder. Notta. A little haaarrrderrrr; there, it cuts loose along with about 1/4 cup of near boiling wort that goes right on my stomach!

I'm now typing with a ice pack jammed in my pants (the boys are ok). Got a red spot the size of a softball on me belly. Think I'll have a homebrew or 4 now.

 

[homebrewer_99]

OWIE!!! I don't want to feel your pain, Brother!!!!

When I was a teenager I used to make Salt Water Taffy in Atlantic City, NJ. I burned myself with the liquid sugar. Man, I had blisters all over. One time the whole palm of my right hand blistered up. I was out of work for a week.

Wish I had some HB then!

There was one comedian who mentioned the first thing a guy learns after moving out of his parents house and on his own is that you DO NOT cook bacon naked!

 

[Toilet Rocker]

Jeez guys. I'm cringing here at work.

Desert--the beer goes in the belly, not on the belly.

A HB battle wound...sure to inspire names for his batch (if it didn' last night)!

 

[El Pistolero]

Burnt Belly Bock?

Seared Crotch Corona?

Holy $hit Stout?

 

[user 574]

Well, a little sore this morning but no blisters! Ran to the store last night to get some solarcane spray. All is well.

I'm doing the Monkey Paw Brown from the Joy of Homebrewing. Think we can spin the name a bit to accomodate the event.

Burnt Monkey Gut Brown? Too early for me to be creative

Desert--the beer goes in the belly, not on the belly.

I think if I didn't have so much going in the belly it probably would have hit the floor

 

[Walker]

If you had slopped it on your rear end, I would have suggested Baboon's Butt.

-walker

 

[Dude]

I've only busted a racking cane thus far but wish I had broken something this evening instead of what did happen to me.

I should start with the fact that I'm dressed like someone of out "Cops". No shoes, socks or shirt. I'm getting a yeast starter boiling on the stove for this weekend with some DME and it clumped up a bit and got stuck on the bottom of the pot. So I grab a spoon and am trying to get the bugger off the bottom. it's not moving. I jam harder. Notta. A little haaarrrderrrr; there, it cuts loose along with about 1/4 cup of near boiling wort that goes right on my stomach!

I'm now typing with a ice pack jammed in my pants (the boys are ok). Got a red spot the size of a softball on me belly. Think I'll have a homebrew or 4 now.

OUCH! Sorry to hear it. Had a similar "burning" experience 2 brew sessions ago. My wife made some caramel to put into a milk stout batch and she took the pan off the stove and poured the hot caramel into the brewpot--it sizzled like a mofo and some jumped out and got her on the leg. She's got 2 or 3 nasty little burns now. She said right after that--"This better be some damn good beer!". I think it will be. Its going to be called LPR. Liquid Panty Remover.

 

[homebrewer_99]

Liquid Panty Remover.

I remember you mentioning that LPR before.

How did it turn out?

 

[Sasquatch]

Pisto - I hate to be obtuse, but the obvious solution to your woes is not to brew around moths. I mean... jeez...

 

[user 574]

Hey, I guess I do have a blister coming on now. Think I should see a doc?

:cross:

 

[homebrewer_99]

...and an exorcist...

 

[El Pistolero]

Pisto - I hate to be obtuse, but the obvious solution to your woes is not to brew around moths. I mean... jeez...

No choice...I live in a freaking jungle.

 

[El Pistolero]

Hey, I guess I do have a blister coming on now. Think I should see a doc?

No, just leave it...now you can drive in the car pool lane.

 

[Sasquatch]

Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaid........