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Big Dog Brewing
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Seems to be a fundamental law of brewing. The worse you stuff up the process, the better the beer is.
Not in my brewhouse. The Sandgroper steinbeer which included loss of mash tun handle, loss of most of mash, re-mash, blocked pickup tube in kettle, three failed yeast starters....is now a shocking beer. Started out OK, then a slow growing infection turned up, now thin, watery, lactic, with a strong metal taste. Looking forward to the ANAWBS notes where it scored a princely 13/40. Possibly getting too drunk, leaving the caramelised rocks in the back yard overnight, (beside the sterilised pot intended to store them) and chucking them in the fermenter next day may have contributed, or not realising that lifting the (brand new, unused) fermenter with all the rocks in it caused the seam at the base to split and seep. Aiming for less stuffups for next years stein beer.