Your worst brewing related injury

[edmanster]

Well it wasn't while I was brewing but its when I planted my hops on monday.. Was trying to push my empty wheelbarrow up some stairs in the backyard and thought I'd give it a little boost with my foot and my foot slipped and I slammed my shin into the little back support bar.. Dam little goose egg is not letting me forget about it.. it effin' hurts..lol that's probably the worst sofar because I don't count the steam burns that happen regularly

 

[XDeus]

I found myself standing in a puddle of foamy beer with a bleeding eyebrow, hurting like Mike Tyson just landed a jab on me, right to the eye. It bled quite a bit, and I ended up with a big blue/black eye for the coming two weeks. No kidding. I told people something about the car door.

Car door? If I had injured my eye on a car door, I would have told everyone it was an exploding bottle cap. MUCH better story!

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

Stumbled carrying a pot of hot sparge water, splashed my chest and got a HUGE blister.

Had the entire bottom of a glass carboy come off when I was carrying it, it smashed my bare toes pretty bad.

 

[beeber]

I was mowing the lawn with a push mower one day. I was backing up near a garden patch and I tripped and fell backwards. My backside landed on a wooden stake that was being used to string hops up the side of my house. I got up, brushed myself off and continued mowing.

About two weeks later I was in a bar enjoying a beer. I noticed it was uncomfortable to sit on the bar stool and I was feeling warm. I went home and the symptoms continued. I went to the doctor that night as I was running a temperature. After the doctor had a look I was sent to the emergency room.

In the emergency room they discovered an infection in the area of my injury. The doctor drained the infection by lancing it. I ended up spending two days in the hospital until the infection cleared.

I was not insured at the time so I had to pay for everything, several thousand. I had just started a new job and the new insurance coverage started the next day.

How about that???

 

[Carter1932]

Guess I've been lucky (knock on wood), but I limit my drinking during brew sessions.

To those who use glass carboys, I would highly recommend only moving carboys in plastic milk cartons. They also work nice for storing beer in my cellar because they are stackable.

Also, a good set of brew gloves come in real handy.

 

[rambler]

I have to say my worst by far has been having my PRIDE decimated by giving some of my beer to be evaluated by a few beer judges in the past...OUCH!!

 

[o4_srt]

I have to say my worst by far has been having my PRIDE decimated by giving some of my beer to be evaluated by a few beer judges in the past...OUCH!!

Ot: how was it received by non judges? I'm entering my first competition in 2 weeks with a beer that was unanimously excellent by friends an coworkers. Not planning on winning, but hoping I don't get torn apart either.

 

[rambler]

It was well recieved by friends, but i think they're just glad to get free beer and dont want to bite the hand that feeds them.

When i gave it to the judges they just evaluated it by style and pick out all the flavors and flaws whatnot.

 

[donjr721]

Was making my very first batch........ Wanted to get every last bit of LME out of the plastic tub I had it in so I put in a ladle of boiling water, put on the lid and attempted to shake it up. It immediately exploded.

If I ever go pro I want to incorporate the scar into my logo.
Kinda looks like a dog on one side and a demonic looking face on the other

how ironic, i did the same exact thing, not even thinking about the pressure from the hot wort, only it was swmbo who shook it up, thank god she was not burnt, i still felt really bad. the dishwasher knob is still hard to turn as the sticky wort siezed it up a bit. boom it went, all over the kitchen. i knew immediately when i heard the boom, funny thing, it was my very first batch. thought my brewing career was done then. wow! didn't even upset her. i love her to death. such a trooper.