Strangest thing to make it into your wort?

[mickybee]

So after an enjoyable evening brewing beer in the back garden i came indoors to chill my wort down and stick it in my fermenter. Id been using a paperback book to place my boiler on so that all the hop debris and other such gunk would settle towards the back of the boiler and not come through my tap (i really need to invest in a bazooka!).

Im sure youre all already ahead of me! So yes my thoroughly un starsanned book has had a 3 second swim in my wort .

Got me wondering what other tales people have got of strange things plopping into there wort and what the outcomes were.

Regards
Mick

 

[IainM]

There are plenty on this forum, but I think the winner is the J-Cloth, which by all accounts turned out to be a fine beer!

 

[Fil]

when patio brewing my first spring brew of the year went well until it came to the chill. I had selected a length of hose to use as the feed from the tap in which something and its family had crawled up to die in over winter, the tap was some distance from the brew so i opened it initially to the usual sort of lvel and wandered over to test the output heat.. nothing happened?? no water came out.. so i wandered back and opened the tap full bore and as i wandered back i noticed the hose was stiffening and starining with pressure..

I got to the kettle just in time for the pressure to build up enough to pull the feed hose off the copper tube it was jubilee clipped to, and for it to spit out a large black lump of sludge that appeared to vault over the kettle before landing at my feet rapidly cased by the stream of cold water that had pushed it out..

After recovering from the soaking and grabbing for the tap to shut it off I reboiled the brew for a further 10 mins while i reattached the chiller to the now clear hose..

That brew sat in the keg for MONTHS i didnt fancy a sample for some reason til one evening when entertaining i ran dry and it was the only keg left..

the Black sludge brew was a Worscester hop shop sarah hughs dark mild ag kit, and it was a smashing quaffing pint

 

[LarryF]

I once tried fitting the grommet on to my FV lid with the FV full and my yeast already pitched ( a real MENSA moment)only to see it disappear down into the depths of the wort. I just left it rather than fishing around in the wort and celotaped a bit of tissue over the hole and it all went brilliantly. Now, I mostly just use tissue instead of an airlock but every now and then I like to use the noisy "S" design airlock, I just love listening to the blub blub. It never fails to make me smile.