Bummer

[Jovial_Monk]

Hmmmmmm back in '86 I frequented the Adelaide casino a lot (car accident and consequent reactive depression (still comes and goes ))

One of the other regulars there had practically nothing left of her fingers--a pan had caught fire, she grabbed the handle and transferred it to the sink and left half her hands stuck to the handle.

While boiling wort won't let the pan get that hot please take care with pans of boiling whatever. Turn the heat off, don't move the pan if there is a boilover. Moving a pan quickly might cause a wave inside the pan and a very painful scald from boiling hot wort splashing out.

Jovial Monk

 

[jaytee]

Makes me think of the day I connected the first tap to the front of the fridge.
The gas was on and I connected beer line to the keg and heard a spattering on the garage floor.
Needless to say the installation of the second tap took place with a bit more care ! (and no wasted beer)

 

[warrenlw63]

Not good

The only time I've ever had a keg line come off was when I was pushing "boiling" water out of a keg with cO2 (I wanted all traces of oxygen gone for long term storage).

Basically as you all know beer lines go soft when hot. This line shot off under 180kpa of pressure.

One thing I've discovered is that boiling water shooting up, hitting the garage ceiling then crashing straight down on your head is not the most pleasant shower you can encounter

Warren -

 

[Batz]

Been a couple of late has there not?
Broken carboys , freezers drilled in the wrong spot , even heard about a HERMS pump that let the smoke out

Lifes like that

 

[sintax69]

got piss last week drinking my stock of APA stubbies lovely till I down half a stubbie of lager yeast left in the back of the fridge mmmm tastie little drop

sintax

 

[dougy]

My first major bummer...

Late last night, finally got around to racking my first partial mash from the kitchen bench to a fermenter below on the floor.
I added dissolved dextrose to the lower fermenter for the 23L volume as I was bulk priming.

Everything was going fine, until i chucked some newspapers under the top fermenter so it tilted down so i could get all the beer out. Went to sink to wash hands, looked back at set-up just in time to see top fermenter slide off bench and crash to the floor. The lid came off and ~4-5L of beer went straight under the fridge and freezer and over the kitchen floor.

In moving the fridge and freezer out of the way I managed to scratch up the slate a bit, and now I will have an overcarbonated (hopefully not explosive) bunch of beers.

 

[mikem108]

I find brew days are more successful when the missus isn't around!

 

[johnno]

Got home a couple of days ago to find that my favourite ale glass had been broken. :angry: :angry:
Dont know where I will find one the same again. It was nice thick glass and I havent seen these around before.
RIP Favourite ale glass.

 

[johnno]

I love it when I get home and slowly realise the rugrats have got into the shed and attacked their favourite bucket with all the odds and ends in it.
Found the bottling tap in the dunny before :angry: , and the new addition to the airlock.
Gotta love their imagination though. :lol: :lol:

cheers
johnno

 

[Gough]

Nice one Johnno. You should market those

Shawn.

 

[Doc]

I love it when I get home and slowly realise the rugrats have got into the shed and attacked their favourite bucket with all the odds and ends in it.
Found the bottling tap in the dunny before :angry: , and the new addition to the airlock.
Gotta love their imagination though. :lol: :lol:

cheers
johnno

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Is it a tight seal and the lions head gets bigger as the co2 expels :lol:

Doc

 

[bonk]

johnno, that looks much better for the airlock

i can finally add something to the topic, i was trying to mill some grain for a brew and got carried away and bumped the table. one tipped hopper, lots of spilt grain all over the floor and one upset beer maker. <_< however the birds seem to like eating malted barley