Snags Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Surely everyone's made one[biggrin] My second attempted brew, I forgot to add the yeast sachet [roll] Noticed the next day when I went to peg out the washing and it was sitting in the bottom of the Machine. . . Yes, I felt like a right twat. [lol] Also had a box of 30 longnecks (sterilised etc) explode out the bottom of the box onto the path on the way to the shed to bottle. . .[pinched] 3 survived [crying] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Waters Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 I haven't had too many blunders....until last night. I was preparing for bottling. I had my fermentor up on a milk crate on the bench and some how it fell off - I don't really know how it happened. I managed to catch the fermentor, just, and only ended up with about the equivalent of a glass of beer over me, the bench and the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snags Posted June 1, 2011 Author Share Posted June 1, 2011 Haha, nice. Can picture the "Classic Catches" dive! [lol] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJosh Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Snags are you Polish? Or just like Polish beer? I just noticed your pic... My biggest beer blunder was not brewing but involved beer.... I came home from work one day and thought id get a beer from my tap, I pulled back on the tap and nothing came out! [crying] On closer inspection i noticed the beer line was frozen. So i turned off the fridge and left the door open for a bit. It was mid summer so i thought id go water the garden and come back and try again. 20 mins later i came back inside and found about 15L of beer on the floor! I had left the tap open! It was a very sad day but lucky for me the women was not home! Or i may no longer be alive! I cleand it up before she got in and went and got me self a carton of sparkling to make everything better! [lol] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snags Posted June 1, 2011 Author Share Posted June 1, 2011 Nah mate, I'm not Polish. I just love Polish beer. [love] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biermoasta Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 20 mins later i came back inside and found about 15L of beer on the floor! [surprised [crying] You must have needed counselling after that sad, sad day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sculpty Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Here's a lesson for everyone compliments of my Great Uncle... He's been brewing for decades but getting a little older now, a few years ago he had made this beautiful stout and was so excited to have me try it when I visited... Upon tasting it was completely flat and very salty. It turned out he had primed each bottle with salt, not sugar/dextrose - Consequently the family remind him of his very savoury brewing blunder on a regular basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snags Posted June 2, 2011 Author Share Posted June 2, 2011 Hahahaha. . . [lol] I got up at 4 am this morning, and stumbled into the kitchen to make a coffee, only to do the same thing! [pinched] Poor guy! [biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 I regret to say, I feel left out a bit now as I am yet to make a blunder. [crying] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty A Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 I guess the only blunder I have really made was adding way too much caramalt (roughly 5 times the amount needed) into one of my brews. It is extremely sweet so it is a desert beer I guess. Nothing undrinkable tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trusty1 Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 my biggest blunder was to not start brewing years ago![innocent] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sculpty Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 I regret to say' date=' I feel left out a bit now as I am yet to make a blunder. [crying'] You must be a politician??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenL8 Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 i once decided to be a little tricky and carbonate my beer with honey to give s sweet kick, trying to follow the correct carbonating level must have put a little too much in the bottles, i come home one day to find half a dozen bottles exploded and beer and glass everwhere. [crying] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty A Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Oh wait another good blunder of mine was: I had a carton of Coopers longnecks that where empty which I was bringing inside to sanitise as I was going to bottle (I only had enough bottles to finish bottling this brew). When I climbed up the steps the bottom of the box fell out and all the bottles went crashing down the steps. [annoyed] I guess one good thing about it was a drive to the bottlo to get a carton of Pale Ale, a mate and we were pretty happy by the time bottling happened. Needless to say I had a few yeast starters as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Eh!L Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I bottled most of a batch before I relised that i forgot to add the sugar for bulk priming.[crying] Everything worked out though. I poured all the bottles back into the bottling bucket and primed it the second time. No problem.[biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Waters Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 When I climbed up the steps the bottom of the box fell out and all the bottles went crashing down the steps. [annoyed] I have never been able to break a Coopers longneck. I've dropped a few (always onto concrete floors and 1 from a great height) and they have always bounced. For the ones that were full jus the caps burst off but the bottles remained intact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty A Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Don't worry Muddy I cried, they where almost on the second story before they fell down the stairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewtownClown Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I knocked an entire 23 lt brew off my bench when bottling - on to carpet. Three days ago I burnt the arch of my foot when transferring just boiled wort to my fermenter on which I had the tap left open. Lost less than half a litre and no skin [devil] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty A Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I knocked an entire 23 lt brew off my bench when bottling - on to carpet. [crying] Im not understanding how you knocked it, they arnt light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewtownClown Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Slippery benchtop + fermenter sitting on plastic milk crate + chock of timber under rear (of fermenter [pinched])+ not so bright idea of seuring FV with occy strap x slipped strap x lunge for fermenter x crate sliding off edge = 23 litres of sticky beer on carpet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weggl Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Getting started![pinched] Just ask Slurtistaggersalot. Weggl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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