Your "uh oh...." moments....

[johnstod]

I may have added columbus instead of azacca as a dry hop in my neipa, still a damn good taste but I can smell the hint of columbus everytime I take a sip so I know it's there

 

[herv]

#1 2nd allgrain brewday, read the therm as C instead of F
#2 Boil over check
#3 no priming sugar prepared check
#4 Ran my strike water to the MT, then when adding the next batch of water to the HLT valve still open and running room temp water to the MT! thin mash that day.
#5hose running too near the burner grabbed it to get more slack and it would up in the flame and also divided in two.
#6Dripped a little wort on the garage floor near the bruner, no big deal right? until the dog goes to have a treat and lick it up and you smell hair burning! no animals were harmed in the making of this beer.
#7 Star san remaining in the bottling bucket, only realized AFTER you have the whole batch of beer also added to the Bottling bucket.

that is all that come to mind... ahh the joys of homebrewing, relax dont worry have a homebrew.

 

[Jayjay1976]

I only noticed 13 batches in to this hobby/obsession that my pants are getting tight. I dunno why but I wasn't anticipating that.

Proudly displayed on the wall of my garage are two empty 55lb grain sacks as evidence. Have I mentioned that I end up drinking the majority of my beer?

Now I'm trying to get interested in low gravity beers and my exercise bike.

 

[Griffin495]

Bottling one of my batches, I heated up my priming sugar in the amount of water needed. Got everything ready to bottle, did the whole bottling process, started cleaning up and noticed the priming sugar solution still sitting on the stove. Went to the LHBS and picked up some carb drops, opened every bottle and added a drop and recapped. The batch actually turned out pretty good and was carbed nicely.

 

[bleme]

My very first brew, I went in with a buddy and we split the batch. It was bottling day and we were over at his house. We had the priming solution in the bottling bucket and were trying to get the siphon going but it would peter out almost immediately. After about 10 times, I took a swig of our Iodopher and gargled with it for a minute and started the siphon with my mouth. I was startled when the beer hit my mouth and spit it into the bottling bucket on reflex. His eyes got big and we both glanced at the wives. They hadn't noticed so we silently agreed to keep the 'oops' between us. Beer turned out great but I ordered an auto-siphon that night.

Fast-forward a couple years. I had just fermented a 10-gallon batch (which is still to-date my ONLY 10-gallon batch). I racked 1 gallon into a jug with some Brett then bottled the rest. As I am cleaning up, I notice I still have a nice, clean, sanitized, 1-gallon jug on the counter and realize that I racked to the wrong jug. Oh well! A year later I had a gallon of good malt vinegar.

 

[jlinz]

I'm sure there are laws against this.

Laws of nature maybe. He was helping me brew and so knew and wanted to drink it anyway...

 

[JDXX1971]

Laws of common sense maybe

FTFY

 

[beersk]

I had one 2 brew sessions ago and I've been brewing for 10 years.

I was mashing in, had been a minute or so, saw water on the floor...thought, what the hell? Forgot to close the damn valve on the mashtun! Lost only like 2 quarts...just rolled with it since I was adding starter wort anyway. Hadn't made an eff up like that in a long time. Wasn't a good brew session, but the beer turned out okay.

 

[orionol73]

I was bottling a Quad that I had aged on cherries so it had a nice deep red/purple color to it. In trying to clean the filled bottles on the counter I knocked 3 off the island and onto the carpet...of course white carpet. SWMBO was less than impressed and I cleaned that spot endlessly. Needless to say, there is now a rug over that area of the floor and somehow I still haven't convinced SWMBO that I need a kegerator

 

[EtchyLives]

Good brew session making 12 gallons of Red Stripe Clone. It was quite cold outside but had only recently dropped in temp so I assumed that the house faucet would still function for cooling the wort. It didn't. 6 hours later after sitting in 17°F the wort was cool enough to transfer to the fermenter. Beer turned out great but lacks clarity despite using gelatin.

Outdoor winter brewing is fun.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

Forgetting to hit start on the timer when the boil starts. Done that one a couple of times.

 

[muledogus]

Pumping water or sanitizer through an auto-siphon while it's pointed at me or my kitchen floor.

 

[seatazzz]

Keep em coming guys....this is awesome. A small oops, but an oops nonetheless. Couple weeks ago brewing up my brown. All the equipment set up, keggle sitting nicely on the burner with water running into it...and saw I had the damn thing facing the wrong way. I use a two-burner camp stove we got from Cabelas (I highly recommend it if you can't afford a nicer burner, boils fast and easy to break down, not to mention can fit two keggles side by side...and great for camping). Instead of stopping the water running in, dumping it, and turning it around, just waited until I ran the strike in and VERY CAREFULLY turned it the right way. On hindsight if that keggle had wobbled and fallen off while I was moving it, chaos would have ensued. Got lucky that time.

 

[sborz22]

Units of measurement are important to remember. I made the Blue Moon clone that everyone uses from this forum and the brew day went spectacularly UNTIL I reread the recipe and I realized I used ounces instead of teaspoons. The beer is cold crashing right now and smells good but time will soon tell what I created!

 

[kh54s10]

Broke a glass/mercury thermometer in the wort. Went through with the brew and friend drank it.

I'm sure there are laws against this.

Unless it was a specific and expensive thermometer, it contained alcohol, not mercury. Those have not been widely used for decades.

 

[r4dyce]

I was dry hopping once and had measured the hops out in to a small cereal bowl. Opened the lid and threw the whole bowl into the fermenter, I mean the actual ceramic bowl along with the hops. On top of that I was so shocked I just panicked and dunked my bare arm into the beer to grab the bowl as it sank to the bottom.
That beer actually turned out pretty good lol.

 

[mirthfuldragon]

I have one from today. I was kegging a cider and somehow inadvertently pulled the siphon hose out of the keg and covered half the kitchen floor with hard cider before I realized what was happening. Good thing SWMBO wasn’t home.

I add "mop the floor" at the end of all my indoor brewing checklists. I think SWMBO encourages indoor brewing just so the floor gets mopped more often.

 

[EDF713]

I add "mop the floor" at the end of all my indoor brewing checklists. I think SWMBO encourages indoor brewing just so the floor gets mopped more often.

I might as well as mopped, my knees still hurt from cleaning it all up! That might work for kegging or bottling days, my wife hates the smell of wort so much I have to brew outside.

It's fun reading these uh-oh moments, and I like how many times the beer turned out fine. It reminds me how forgiving brewing is.

 

[mongoose33]

My very first brew, I went in with a buddy and we split the batch. It was bottling day and we were over at his house. We had the priming solution in the bottling bucket and were trying to get the siphon going but it would peter out almost immediately. After about 10 times, I took a swig of our Iodopher and gargled with it for a minute and started the siphon with my mouth. I was startled when the beer hit my mouth and spit it into the bottling bucket on reflex. His eyes got big and we both glanced at the wives. They hadn't noticed so we silently agreed to keep the 'oops' between us. Beer turned out great but I ordered an auto-siphon that night.

I think this wins the award for most impressive all-time "oops"!

 

[WFox93]

Am I the only one who's uh oh moments consist of catching things on fire?
So far while brewing, I've set fire to a spatula, my wooden spoon, pot holder, almost myself on a few occasions, my piece of note paper with recipe instructions (yes, I sometimes print my own instruction) My thermometer and I've got scorch marks at the corner of my counter top where it meets the stove. Ahh the joys of stove top brewing.

 

[JDXX1971]

Am I the only one who's uh oh moments consist of catching things on fire?
So far while brewing, I've set fire to a spatula, my wooden spoon, pot holder, almost myself on a few occasions, my piece of note paper with recipe instructions (yes, I sometimes print my own instruction) My thermometer and I've got scorch marks at the corner of my counter top where it meets the stove. Ahh the joys of stove top brewing.

Dang, you dangerous dude.

 

[WFox93]

Dang, you dangerous dude.

Maybe just a little lol
In all reality, I think its because my kettle is entirely too wide for my stove burner and the flames creep out the sides. I'm investing in a propane burner soon to brew in the drive way.

 

[V-Fib]

In order of events:

Leaving the valve open on my mash tun.

Bottle bomb in my wife's coat closet (only one from a CL 22oz bomber but it was enough)

Forgetting 5 lbs of grain in a 5 gal batch

Forgetting to sanitize bottles after filling 8

Dumping the liquid back into harvested yeast to top off a mason jar (it was in a dirty pint glass from the night before)

Ironically the sanitized bottles and the yeast were infection free. Obviously not going to be routine practice but its surprising to me.

 

[V-Fib]

Pretty sure I got blood in a kegged batch once also. The lip on a new ball lock is sharper than it looks.

 

[bpgreen]

Pretty sure I got blood in a kegged batch once also. The lip on a new ball lock is sharper than it looks.

You kissed a keg?

 

[jlinz]

Unless it was a specific and expensive thermometer, it contained alcohol, not mercury. Those have not been widely used for decades.

Haha! No wonder he wasn't as nervous as I was! I guess he knew. Still, the glass..

 

[seatazzz]

Am I the only one who's uh oh moments consist of catching things on fire?
So far while brewing, I've set fire to a spatula, my wooden spoon, pot holder, almost myself on a few occasions, my piece of note paper with recipe instructions (yes, I sometimes print my own instruction) My thermometer and I've got scorch marks at the corner of my counter top where it meets the stove. Ahh the joys of stove top brewing.

Nope you're not. I've got a couple of lovely burn scars on my stomach from the hose coming loose from the pump while setting up the IC as a heat exchanger...it did the typical "fire hose" dance and most of it landed on my stomach and my left ****. And the other day I lost all my left forearm hair lighting a burner.

 

[bleme]

Maybe just a little lol
In all reality, I think its because my kettle is entirely too wide for my stove burner and the flames creep out the sides. I'm investing in a propane burner soon to brew in the drive way.

I use heavy duty aluminum foil to make a cone around my kettle. It helps keep stuff from burning and gets me up to temp a lot faster. I really need to make friends with a roofer so I can make a more permanent cone out of scrap flashing. I just can't bring myself to buy 25 ft of flashing when I only need a few.

 

[brewcat]

Broke a bottle in the bottling bucket while sanitizing. So spent some time cleaning and making sure there wasn't any glass before bottling.

Dumped 10 pounds of grain on the floor.

 

[seatazzz]

Dumped 10 pounds of grain on the floor.

Please tell me you swept it up and called it Swept Under the Rug {beer style of your choice}???