Well...it happened to me.

[Fenduh]

I always had a little chuckle when I read about someone transferring wort to a kettle and forgetting to close the valve so it drained onto the floor.

Yeah...not so funny anymore.

On top of that I was so frazzled that I forgot to add hops until about 5 minutes left in the boil. I decided to extend the boil by 20 minutes and use the no chill method in hopes of salvaging some hop utilization.

As you can imagine my efficiency wasn't great but I still made beer.

 

[edco76]

Don't feel too bad. I just made a yeast starter with lactose.

Or more accurately, I put some yeast in some lactose and water for 24 hours. Didnt realize it until I went looking for my lactose to add to the brew.

 

[IslandLizard]

I always had a little chuckle when I read about someone transferring wort to a kettle and forgetting to close the valve so it drained onto the floor.

Yeah...not so funny anymore.

On top of that I was so frazzled that I forgot to add hops until about 5 minutes left in the boil. I decided to extend the boil by 20 minutes and use the no chill method in hopes of salvaging some hop utilization.

As you can imagine my efficiency wasn't great but I still made beer.

You could have boiled for the proper 60 or 90 minutes after your hop discovery. Wouldn't have hurt your gravity either, being a bit low from the unintentional floor wort experiment.

I've drained a gallon of first running into my sparge water after forgetting to close the valve. The rushing sound got my attention, and strange enough it takes a good 10-20 seconds to find the cause, and valve.

You still made beer!

 

[cjgenever]

My kitchen floor thought it was a cool ship more than once