FloppyKnockers
Well-Known Member
Forgetting to hit start on the timer when the boil starts. Done that one a couple of times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You kissed a keg?Pretty sure I got blood in a kegged batch once also. The lip on a new ball lock is sharper than it looks.
Haha! No wonder he wasn't as nervous as I was! I guess he knew. Still, the glass..Unless it was a specific and expensive thermometer, it contained alcohol, not mercury. Those have not been widely used for decades.
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.
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.
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}???
Please tell me you swept it up and called it Swept Under the Rug {beer style of your choice}???
I did a super stupid one the other day. Measured out the dry hops for my pliny clone (I keep my hops in a chest freezer in the garage, and use the top as a table for the scale) dropped them in the fermenter, and went my merry way. This was Wednesday. Yesterday afternoon, sitting in my garage having a few homebrews, and happened to glance in the direction of the freezer...yep, three different bags of hops sitting ON TOP of the freezer instead of in it. Forgot to put them away. They're all completely dry and kept tightly closed, so I don't think they'll have a problem...but still. Noob moment.
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 boob. And the other day I lost all my left forearm hair lighting a burner.
I was chilling my wort, reflecting on the successful brew day. I look over and see a bag of extract. I DON'T HAVE ANY LEFTOVER EXTRACT, I NEVER ADDED IT! So I panicked, threw in the extract into the cooling wort (looked like pancake mix) The fermentation took off like a rocket and the beer turned out ok.
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