Is it just me or....

[mickeyt69]

Yesterday i did my first brew for a couple of months and i thought i would be a bit rusty, but it went more smoothly than any of my other brews so i decided to treat myself to a trip to the pub for a few cask ales. when i got home i decided that i was going to do another brew today, and so set about cleaning my boiler in the back yard emptying the water down the drain. When i got back in and started filling the boiler i realised that the hop strainer was mising from it oh no! after i was doing so well i had thrown it down the drain where the number 2s go!! No problem ill make a new one out of some slotted pipe it fit perfect probably better than the old one i then set alarm for 6am and whent to sleep. Alarm goes off at six and i get up(big suprise to bothe me and the missus) brew day goes swimminly till i get up to the boil and add first hops only to see the new shiney hop strainer staring back at me from the work top my question to you guys is whats the most stupid thing you have ever done in the world of brewing? or am i the only one :lol:

oh and if you were wondering i managed to save the brew without scalding my hands!!

 

[Baz Chaz]

Well done Mickey :thumb: Its good we can all laugh at ourselves from time to time :grin:

For me, so far so good as far as brewing goes

my Mrs has me down for OCD about planning etc

..........but there's always my next brew :lol:

 

[TheMumbler]

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my question to you guys is whats the most stupid thing you have ever done in the world of brewing?

forgetting the hop strainer isn't such a big problem you can always tip out into a spare FV put on the strainer and tip back in again. The temperature loss isn't as critical as doing the equivalent with your mash...

I've done the usual leave the tap open but my biggest error so far was plugging in a plastic bucket boiler without any liquid in it. Knackered element, knackered bucker, delicate aroma of burnt plastic.

following that putting boiling water in somebody elses better bottle

I think I need to go to stainless...Everybody needs a good brewing disaster story (preferably without injury)

 

[adrianmole72]

When I brewed my first kit, I started to syphon it into my keg with the tap open !!

Fortune must have been smiling on me, because for some reason, I had rolled up our brand new,fairly expensive rug !!

This is so far, there may be more in the future, seeing as I'm doing another brew tonight !!!

Stephen

 

[Aleman]

Pulling the tap out of a boiler containing 30L of boiling strong mild . . . . :shock:

Jumping out of the way of the stream of wort with a F*CK! . . . :shock:

Then stopping the flow with my hand! . . . . :shock: :wha: :nono:

Then snatching my hand away "F*CK! Thats Hot!" . . . . :thumb:

And then putting my hand back over the hole . . . . :nono: :nono: :nono: It was still hot

At least I got a FV under the flow of wort and saved the brew.

And people ask me why I went Stainless :hmm:

Oh yeah and the time recently when I took a blowtorch to my left testicle . . . Note to self . . . Don't do that again :nono: :nono: :nono:

 

[31bb3]

I forgot to close the tap on my corny filled it with beer then force carbed it all over my feet

 

[Springer]

I have had lots of minor misdemeanors, nothing compared to Alemans :lol:

Don't know which is worse spilling a lot of Ale or burning your bits .............spilt ale but never burnt nuts :hmm:

 

[graysalchemy]

And the award for the most masochistic brewer goes to.........













Aleman :lol: :lol:

 

[Springer]

And the award for the most masochistic brewer

I did wonder about that G and then gave him the benefit of doubt, that it was an accident. :lol:

 

[Hawks]

Oh yeah and the time recently when I took a blowtorch to my left testicle . . . Note to self . . . Don't do that again :nono: :nono: :nono:

I assume this was also an accident ??? Not just something you tried to see what would happen.... :wha:

 

[graysalchemy]

Perhaps I should have given him the benefit of the doubt but he has been challenging me in Word Association so I thought I would have a jovial dig.

Anyway sorry Aleman, reading your post properly I should have given you the benefit of the doubt.

:thumb: :thumb:

AG

 

[Aleman]

From Here

 

[graysalchemy]

From Here

I'm sorry Aleman but that does look intentional and if that was a re enactment well I rest my case :lol: :lol:

 

[Aleman]

That was a re enactment . . . and I had switched it off then

 

[mickeyt69]

Class keep em coming gents made me feel a whole lot better! The two brews are doing nicely now aswell so all turned out well in the end

 

[graysalchemy]

That was a re enactment . . . and I had switched it off then

I rest my case your Honour

:lol: :lol:

 

[mickeyt69]

The hop strainer returns........................ In the form of a main drain blockage

 

[Springer]

The hop strainer returns........................ In the form of a main drain blockage

:rofl: :rofl: Sorry Mickey not funny really...................................... :rofl: :rofl:

I had forgotten where this thread came from, Alemans deviations seem to have taken it over, personnally I prefer a blocked drain to burnt nuts. :? :lol:

 

[unclepumble]

you win AM we have alll "dropped a bollock" your the only one to have burn't one :rofl:

UP

 

[Tony]

Some great reading here. I've done the usual - forgetting to put the false bottom in the mash tun... but the biggest nightmare was allowing the secondary fermenter to 'fall' off the dining room table after bottling when I did my first ever stout. Brand new cream carpet too. Couldn't have been a pale could it - had to be a bloody stout.

Took me 4 hours to clean the carpet, thankfully the missus was out. Occasionally I see her tilt her head to catch the light whilst looking at the carpet but she's never said anything!