Nearly had my eye out today!

[Tony1951]

Totally stupid, but there you are. I admit it.

I had been trying to save some yeast from a brew made a few weeks ago. I had brought on a bit of yeast and when it had fermented out the spare wort I put in the 5 litre plastic water bottle, I just left it in there under the 'beer' it had made out of un-hopped malt.

On Thursday I poured off most of the spare liquor and added some fresh third run off sparge that I didn't need. Come Friday, there was next to no activity so I more or less decided it was a lost cause and screwed the cap on and put it down. This morning (Sunday) I absent mindedly picked up the 5 litre bottle with about 500ml of cloudy wort in it and started to unscrew the lid.....

BANG!!!!

The lid left my fingers like a bullet, skimmed the side of my nose, leaving a mark and the screw cap bounced off the ceiling like something you don't want to pass within millimetres of your eye (which it just had). The bottle of very much alive yeast dropped to the floor.

One touching thing is that the wife rushed in looking pretty alarmed to see if I had been blown up - or maybe she was just concerned about the house. I've done a lot of shooting in my life and I've heard quieter small calibre revolvers than this thing.

Never again will I give up on the yeast and screw down a lid like that - bloody fool that I am!

Those 5 litre water bottles must hold a fair bit of pressure without blowing.

 

[stevej]

Totally stupid, but there you are. I admit it.

I had been trying to save some yeast from a brew made a few weeks ago. I had brought on a bit of yeast and when it had fermented out the spare wort I put in the 5 litre plastic water bottle, I just left it in there under the 'beer' it had made out of un-hopped malt.

On Thursday I poured off most of the spare liquor and added some fresh third run off sparge that I didn't need. Come Friday, there was next to no activity so I more or less decided it was a lost cause and screwed the cap on and put it down. This morning (Sunday) I absent mindedly picked up the 5 litre bottle with about 500ml of cloudy wort in it and started to unscrew the lid.....

BANG!!!!

The lid left my fingers like a bullet, skimmed the side of my nose, leaving a mark and the screw cap bounced off the ceiling like something you don't want to pass within millimetres of your eye (which it just had). The bottle of very much alive yeast dropped to the floor.

One touching thing is that the wife rushed in looking pretty alarmed to see if I had been blown up - or maybe she was just concerned about the house. I've done a lot of shooting in my life and I've heard quieter small calibre revolvers than this thing.

Never again will I give up on the yeast and screw down a lid like that - bloody fool that I am!

Maybe she was concerned about the floor Tony :whistle:

 

[LarryF]

Glad to hear you're ok Tony, it's a lesson learned.

 

[Tony1951]

Yes Steve - thinking about it this is probably right, and thanks Larry - all well, but I could have had a nasty looking eye, or an eye that wasn't 'looking' any more, if the angle of the bottle had been different. Of course if it had been different, it might have missed my face altogether instead of skimming my nose. :)

I remember years ago, laughing about a Labour councillor friend who copped a champaign cork in his eye at some party function. He was a work colleague and we were all calling him a 'champaign socialist'. In fact - he had a detached retina from the thump on the eyeball. It wasn't so funny really as we discovered later.

 

[MyQul]

A while back I opened a swing top and the whole top detached and shot off narrowly missed my face. Ever since then I always turn my head away and angle the bottle away from me

 

[stevej]

Anyway where have you been Tony? have not seen much of you online as of late hope your ok:thumb:

 

[Tony1951]

Anyway where have you been Tony? have not seen much of you online as of late hope your ok:thumb:

All fine thanks. Just busier than a while back. Brewing fine. All good. Hope all here are likewise.

Just done a couple of AG brews - a Geterbrewed Real English IPA, and an APA adaptation out of the Greg Hughes book. The English IPA has been bottled about 9 days and I tasted a sample - is good. The new APA was only made on Friday so is on its third day. I had a big (for me) order from Geterbrewed last week - 25KG of crushed malt and a stack of hops. Price came to about £70 including delivery and discounts. Nice malt - a new one for me. I will better know when I start drinking it, but the trial jar (1056) tasted very nice - malty and flowery (MAGNUM for bittering and bags of CENTENNIAL & CITRA as late additions and flame out. I really like the American hops and so do my beer beneficiaries (who drink at least half of what I make).

Just got back from a 610 mile day drive to Canvey Island - started at 0810. Got back at 2155. Knackerated. Went to pick up a classic Raleigh Superbe bike I bought. Very old fashioned classic 'gentleman's' bicycle. The damned Tom Tom gave up and wouldn't run or charge which was a huge nuisance since I only had half an idea of the route from looking at the map at home before I set off. Still, I employed 20th century tactics of stopping and asking people and got there fine. Fixed the tom tom when I got home. A loose plug on its little battery inside it. Seems to work now. Hope so. It has barely been used although it is a couple of years old.