Brewing mistakes you really wish you'd avoided...

[samale]

Did that one recently. Was trying out the new Kegland all in one disconnects and forgot that the keg I was trying them on still had some beer in it and was pressurised. Thank god they are easy to disconnect.

I was half expecting you to say you only boiled your wort for 30 mins instead of the professional 60 mins

 

[Brew_DD2]

I was half expecting you to say you only boiled your wort for 30 mins instead of the professional 60 mins

I let it spew out for 60 minutes. That's what the pros do (and filmed it for Insta).

 

[Cheshire Cat]

We should discuss the 30 minutes boil on more threads

 

[samale]

We should discuss the 30 minutes boil on more threads

It was more heated than the Brexit thread

 

[Brew_DD2]

It was more heated than the Brexit thread

It feels like a lot of these arguments have gone on longer than Brexit tbf.

 

[MickDundee]

I can’t believe I missed that thread , being catching up on it now.

 

[phildo79]

Awesome - I can so see myself doing this. In fact, I've just been out to the garage and written GAS and BEER on my corny posts

Aren't they already marked? With in and out? At least one of them should be. I have had some hairy moments when it comes to gas. I've had beer shooting out of many orifices, panicking like fook, holding things in place so the whole batch doesn't get sprayed all over my kitchen.

You haven't truly brewed until you have had a moment of sheer panic.

 

[foxy]

When I first started brewing, listening to what brewing forum members had to say. The worst being, "I have been doing this for years" Since researching answers to questions, and getting the right answers my brewing improved 100 fold.

 

[Michael Burnley]

A failed element on a Burco boiler that also tripped the power to the house, I ended up transferring to my plastic HLT and doing the boil that way

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Aren't they already marked? With in and out?

Yes - but to be fair, black on a black background isn’t that clear when they’re at the back of the fridge, I can’t see the top and I haven’t got my glasses on

 

[Brewnaldo]

Been reading this thread thinking I havent don't any of these and am therefore much cleverer than everyone else, then I slowly began to remember.....

Cowping my boiler off a table onto the garage floor whilst full of mash water. It still bears the scars....

Knocking the FV tap and pouring beer all over the kitchen....

Putting my grain bag in the sink, turning on the tap to wash it, and walking walking away for a considerable length of time, flooding 3 rooms....

And, most recently, accidentally freezing a full 20 litre

 

[hop-a-long]

And, most recently, accidentally freezing a full 20 litre

You sure you weren't trying to increase the ABV by intentionally freezing the beer?

 

[Moe]

Made a few to be fair:

Forgot to empty the pint or so ot star san out of the corny before filling with stout. I realised but drank it anyway. The beer was fine.

Forgot to put the false bottom in the Brewzilla, only noticed after the mash was finished so I used a hop bag for that one. Beer was fine

Thought I would be clever and use some washers to clamp the fine mesh to the false bottom. They were black after the boil and there were black bits floating in the finished beer so I tipped it.

Added the immersion chiller to chill the wort for a hip stand, added the hops at 80C, came back to it later and it was back to 95C. I’d not turned the elements off


Adjusted my water to a pale profile and mashed in my grains for a dark ale. A quick google and a raid of the baking cupboard sorted this out.

I’m sure there’s more……

 

[Pennine]

I once forgot to attach the lugs on the side of my Braumeister malt pipe meaning that there was nowhere for the lifting handle to catch on to to remove the malt pipe after mashing. It took a good bit of levering with various bits of wood to raise the pipe to a position where I could fit the upper lugs, and then using the lifting handle and holding the malt pipe aloft with one hand, whilst trying to screw in the lower lugs with the other hand.

I say "I once forgot"....but that's not strictly true because I did it again a few months later!!!

Have you ever dropped the wingnut into the side of the malt pipe? That is a pain in the ass to get out.

 

[nickjdavis]

Have you ever dropped the wingnut into the side of the malt pipe? That is a pain in the ass to get out.

No, but I did start the pump once before fitting the upper filter plate and fine mesh screen....

 

[Tanglefoot]

Wondered why the corny wasn't sealing properly then realising the lid washer is at the bottom of the keg...

(Btw , what are the little rubber rings around the arms on the lid for ? )

 

[Crappyfish]

Left the tap open again whilst cleaning the FV

 

[Gingerbrews]

Having attached the immersion cooler to tap, wondered why temp not falling...................realising I've attached it to HOT water tap

 

[Sozzled Sab]

Boiler developed leak around tap mid boil. Transferred to HLT to complete only to realise I'd forgotten to swap hop filter.

 

[Victor Churchill]

Connect a heating belt to the InkBird controller's Heating output but not locate the temperature probe securely so that it dropped out and was telling the InkBird the ambient room temperature. So the InkBird tried to make the room hotter by driving the heating belt constantly. Resulted in a meltdown (literally) where the unrestrained heating belt (why don't these have limiters?? ) happened to be touching gas pipe from a brand new SodaStream cylinder. Doubled my carbon footprint for the day :-(