been there mark, brew came out fine, had it already fermented out? the alcohol might help to sheild the brew. anyway it's the reason why i no longer use sediment reducers in my taps
-Phill
What's been your worst brewing disaster?
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DarkFaerytale
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Carbonator, if you are still here, can you help out?The Carbonator wrote:In my first partial, the HBS guy talked me into using Pride of ring wood.
He said "hey, its in almost all comercial aussie beers. Its a good hop. You should try it."
I put 4 hours into this brew. ( it was my first time partial-ing )
I made VB
oh well, live and learn.
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A homebrew is like a fart, only the brewer thinks it's great.
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These ended up being a ripper once they were over 6 weeks in the bottle, undiluted BTW - nice & strong!Ash wrote:Being a noob I heard of 2 can brews & thought I'd give it a go cause one of the coopers varietys was on special 1/2 price - pity it was Bitter!
I added 1kg of LDME as soon as I found out what IBUs were & realised my mistake - could have maybe done with another 2 kilos of malt though I think
I tried one at 2 weeks hoping, in vain it seems - down the sink went 1/2 the bottle & I topped it up with water & re-primed it. See how that goes in a week I guess, if no good I guess I'll just box it up & try it next winter, or lawn food it.
My biggest disaster now is leaving the airlock out after checking gravity & coming back a week later to find the brew reeked, had a skin & tasted awful - you guessed it, infected.
Bringing up this old thread after a shocker the other day
No 1 ...Had 2 pots on the go and the 3rd hotplate turned on with boiled kettle in hand .
1st pot about to overflow, so I put Plastic Kettle down, on the 3rd Hotplate, burnt the base of kettle (1 week old), had to put it there as I had not cleared enough room
on the bench next to me. Whilst worrying about kettle pot overflows and malt and hops everywhere, whilst my kids laughed at me.
No 2 ...Filling the Fermenter, leaves tap open and about 100 ml of previously boiled liquid and mixed can hits the ground.
No 3 ...Kicked toe on Brick moved by my young son, rips Toe Nail off.
Cheers
Boonie
No 1 ...Had 2 pots on the go and the 3rd hotplate turned on with boiled kettle in hand .
1st pot about to overflow, so I put Plastic Kettle down, on the 3rd Hotplate, burnt the base of kettle (1 week old), had to put it there as I had not cleared enough room
on the bench next to me. Whilst worrying about kettle pot overflows and malt and hops everywhere, whilst my kids laughed at me.No 2 ...Filling the Fermenter, leaves tap open and about 100 ml of previously boiled liquid and mixed can hits the ground.
No 3 ...Kicked toe on Brick moved by my young son, rips Toe Nail off.
Cheers
Boonie
A homebrew is like a fart, only the brewer thinks it's great.
Give me a flying headbutt.......
Give me a flying headbutt.......
rwh wrote:What, no mention of that brew you did with a million ingredients and subsequently tipped?
That was a baaaaad idea, that one. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
But that one did not cause pain or have my family laughing at me.
Cheers
Boonie
A homebrew is like a fart, only the brewer thinks it's great.
Give me a flying headbutt.......
Give me a flying headbutt.......
Back at uni when my mate and I were brewing using el cheapo ingredients, dex for our brewing sugar and completing the process as quickly as possible we have had a couple pretty decent screw ups...
1. We were too tight to buy build a heater cupboard or buy a heater pad..... so we decided that keeping it in his bedroom cupboard would be ok as long as his mum didn't find out.... we started bottling and as per Krustys experience, the tip came off the bottle filler and we (I) managed to spray beer everywhere while trying to turn the tap off.... needless to say his mum found out.
2. Same mate and I were house sitting and decided to again brew inside (such idiots), but this time in the comfort of the kitchen. Somehow we managed to put our brew down without adding our beloved dex. Filled to 23L, added yeast... but no dex. My mate was on crutches after a knee reco and the following day found the bag of dex and promptly emptied this into the fermenter.... Apparantly the resulting 'explosion' was quite spectacular... beer shot out of the airlock and all over the kitchen, it emptied 2/3 of the liquid. Johnny Knee reco grabbed himself a beer and sat on the couch laughing till I arrived home an hour later....
1. We were too tight to buy build a heater cupboard or buy a heater pad..... so we decided that keeping it in his bedroom cupboard would be ok as long as his mum didn't find out.... we started bottling and as per Krustys experience, the tip came off the bottle filler and we (I) managed to spray beer everywhere while trying to turn the tap off.... needless to say his mum found out.
2. Same mate and I were house sitting and decided to again brew inside (such idiots), but this time in the comfort of the kitchen. Somehow we managed to put our brew down without adding our beloved dex. Filled to 23L, added yeast... but no dex. My mate was on crutches after a knee reco and the following day found the bag of dex and promptly emptied this into the fermenter.... Apparantly the resulting 'explosion' was quite spectacular... beer shot out of the airlock and all over the kitchen, it emptied 2/3 of the liquid. Johnny Knee reco grabbed himself a beer and sat on the couch laughing till I arrived home an hour later....
Thats bad luck with the fermenter, Krusty, I'm still using my Dads old fermenter, which has a date of 10/1974 on the bottom of it! still makes a nice brew though.
A few years ago, made up a batch, can't remember what it was now, and next day went out to check on it and uh oh, had frothed out of the top. I thought this was a disaster and tipped it all out, and cleaned and put everything away wonder what it would have been like?
A few years ago, made up a batch, can't remember what it was now, and next day went out to check on it and uh oh, had frothed out of the top. I thought this was a disaster and tipped it all out, and cleaned and put everything away
wonder what it would have been like?