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

[EDF713]

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

Besides, if you mashed and boiled it you're all good, right?

 

[AknotOtoads]

Whirlpool hose popped out of the BK while adding hops! (I don't have the bulkhead fitting installed yet...)
No burns and no major mess just sprayed a few ounces on the garage floor.

 

[grampamark]

A couple months ago I accidentally added the adjuncts for a cream ale to the grain bill for a porter. I was doughing in when I realized my mistake. Nothing to do but make beer.

Turns out that "cream porter" is is pretty damn good. I may do it again, on purpose.

 

[KIDD69]

I made a 1L starter 2 days before brew day, put it on the stir plate and cold crashed the night before. After a successfull brew session I grabbed the flask to decant and low and behold...... no yeast cake! I sheepishly looked in the fridge only to discover my yeast pack that didn’t make it into the starter. Pitched it and the beer still turned out ok.

 

[Ccceric]

I have one to add, the other night I kegged a kettle sour into one of my sankey kegs and cranked the PSI up to 40. I set it on the floor and started rocking it back-and-forth with my foot and I heard a couple of quick psst... I didn’t think anything about it at the time but about 10 seconds later my beer line shot off the top of my keg and shot beer all over my garage. Keep in mind this beer was at 40 psi and angry from being shaken so it shot out like a rocket. I assumed I just didn’t have the line on there far enough the first time so I shoved it all the way on started shaking and it happened again... I really am an idiot. Needless to say it is now clamped tightly.

 

[brewcat]

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

No, but I just did it the other week. Picked up most of it and threw it back in storage. Thinking for my new brew, Basement Floor Brown!

 

[mr_stout]

Over active fermentation blowing the airlocks up to the ceiling and making a big mess on the floor. It has happened too many times.

 

[orionol73]

Just pulled together the ingredients for a Belgian IPA I am brewing tomorrow
Went for the 10lb bag of Pilsner malt and all I have is Maris Otter and US 2-row...
I must have used the pilsner in a DIPA and then the remaining majority in an oatmeal stout

hope the stout turns out ok...uh oh

 

[pinchegil]

doughed in on my herms system, flipped the wort pump heard a screeching noise at the same time I noticed my false bottom on the table beside my system. I had filled my pump with grain. you can't just dump 36 lbs of grain, and the valve was plugged. I had to scoop up all the grain an put it into homer buckets, reverse pressure the valve with part of the sparge water to remove the grain, install the false bottom, put the grain and wort back into the tun, take apart the pump and clean it out. I missed my numbers and wound up with 15 gallons of so so beer that was very dry and added almost 2 hours to my brew day.

 

[Sbe2]

I just realized I drilled my collar to my keezer with one screw. I went to take it off just now and it wouldn’t move. The hole is a half inch down and half inch in on the top of the of of the freezer. There is still some frost on the inside when the freezer turns on so I think I may be alright. The collar has been on for a few months now so I think I may be alright.

 

[seatazzz]

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.

 

[mongoose33]

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.

Nah, no big deal. Hops are stored in boxes on a shelf at my LHBS, never seems to matter. After I buy 'em I put them in the freezer.

 

[muledogus]

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.

Once I was brewing the the brutal cold so I was sitting as close to my burner as possible during any heating stages. At one point my buddy looked down and asked what was smoking. It was my jeans which now had two nice burn holes in them. My feet sure were warm though.

 

[ballxx4]

I was cleaning up after transferring a mead to a secondary. Had a carboy full of water and sanitizer sitting on my bathroom floor, when I decided to put the siphon into the carboy so i wouldn't trip on it on my way back into the bathroom. I left to do some other cleanup when I heard a beeping, I walked the whole apartment only to find the siphon had started itself when I put it in the carboy and it had drained the whole 5 gallons onto my bathroom floor. The beeping was the neighbour belows fire alarm going off as 5 gallons of water poured around it into his living room. Whoops...my landlord wasn't to happy, I told her the toilet overflowed, seemed easier to explain

 

[enkamania]

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.

 

[JKenshi]

My first batch of beer not from a kit (extract recipe though), I topped off the wort with water as instructed to make 5 gallons. OG was a little low, so I added some corn sugar... didn't calculate it, just guessed. OG was high, so added some water. did this a couple of times until the OG was right and had about 5.25 gallons in my carboy...

In my 5 gallon carboy. In my FIVE freakin' GALLON carboy.

I was optimistic, but still felt iffy about it, so rigged up a blow off tube from a piece of half inch tubing and an airlock "just in case". Good thing I had that. had enough blow off to reduce my final batch to 4.5 gallons.

 

[bpgreen]

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.

BTDTGTTS

 

[singybrue]

My first time using my new grain mill I set in on the 5g bucket, filled the hopper with grain, attached the 1/2" drill and turned it on. Didn't think about holding the mill and dumped the whole thing over!

 

[ramjam]

dropped and broke bottle while bottling, stepped on a piece of the broken glass went through my shoe and into my foot

 

[flars]

I have Calphalon kettles now. While waiting for water to boil for making a starter I was on the computer. Didn't take long for the bottom of my wife's stainless steel kettles to delaminate when they go dry on a hot burner. Once is for learning. Two kettles is dumb.

 

[BrewKnob]

Well, one time I woke up in Tijuana with a tattoo in bed with some woman who claimed we were married AND I had bought a timeshare!

Oh, you mean brewing it...not drinking it.

 

[sillbeer]

On a semi cold day, brewing in my garage, I just started transferring from MT to BK and decided to go in and warm up for a bit. I came back in the garage later and quickly discovered I left the valve open on the BK. Wort was pouring all over the floor. It was awesome.

 

[seatazzz]

Here's what I'm calling Seatazzz's Law...if you think you have enough propane for a brew day, think again. Ran out about 6 minutes to flameout. The last hop addition was at 10 minutes, so I just did a pseudo whirlpool with them and then chilled. Smells awesome.

 

[WFox93]

Just got a couple good ones this past Friday. Dumped about a gallon of pale ale all over the hardwood floor in my closet and living room when committed to removing a falling apart ball valve system (FastFerment) with the fermenter still filled with beer. Decided F-it and keg the remaining gallon, pulled the empty keg out of the keezer just to knock one of the tap handles and send what remained of my strawberry cream ale into the living room floor. I was doing this while cooking dinner. Opened the oven to pull the steak I was cooking out... By the handle without an oven mit. Normally I'm not a superstitious man but I'm never doing anything beer related on Friday the 13th again.
... all I wanted to do was dump the dregs so my beer would be clear. I ended up racking the remaining off the top with a syphon which ended up just as clear anyway minus a half of a quite delicious batch.

 

[MagicRat]

I usually brew outdoors under a canopy in the summer because of afternoon Florida rain but this one particular day, it just looked so nice ...

Naturally, the clouds rolled in fast during the boil and the sky just opened up in an apocalyptic, torrential downpour forcing me to seek shelter while about a gallon of rainwater was added to my boiling wort. Once the rain stopped, I boiled it down to where I normally would and my American farmhouse ale still turned out great!

 

[JKenshi]

I usually brew outdoors under a canopy in the summer because of afternoon Florida rain but this one particular day, it just looked so nice ...

Naturally, the clouds rolled in fast during the boil and the sky just opened up in an apocalyptic, torrential downpour forcing me to seek shelter while about a gallon of rainwater was added to my boiling wort. Once the rain stopped, I boiled it down to where I normally would and my American farmhouse ale still turned out great!

I would LOVE to brew with rain water... just not sure about the stuff that comes out of my rain barrels... it gets filtered by the roof and gutters.

 

[SEndorf]

I had a brew day where everything was going smoothly, and the unthinkable happened....

I forgot to pour myself a brew at the beginning of the boil.
I was well into 30 minutes of boil before I realized this tragic mistake.

 

[Kee]

My most memorable: Just before leaving town for a three day trip, I hooked up the CO2 hose to a just kegged beer, in my combination kegerator/beer frig. Most of the way home I was thinking about how good the beer would taste after my 8-hour drive.

Got home, found that the quick-connect on the CO2 hose had not seated properly. It pressured up the frig, the door was open, and all of my beer hot. And no CO2.

 

[seatazzz]

I usually brew outdoors under a canopy in the summer because of afternoon Florida rain but this one particular day, it just looked so nice ...

Naturally, the clouds rolled in fast during the boil and the sky just opened up in an apocalyptic, torrential downpour forcing me to seek shelter while about a gallon of rainwater was added to my boiling wort. Once the rain stopped, I boiled it down to where I normally would and my American farmhouse ale still turned out great!

Late 2016 I brewed an IPA with water I took straight out of Lake Chelan. 'Twas early in my career and I didn't think anything of it. Turned out fantastic.