LethalCorpse
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So, I went down to the storeroom to check final gravity, drop temp to crash chill and then get the keg cleaned out. I think I must've not pushed the fermenters far enough back in, so that when the door shut, the drawer at the bottom of the door wedged against one or both taps, putting downward pressure on it. While I was cleaning the kegs I heard a creaking sound, then the fridge door flew open - leaving me stuck outside the storeroom. The glass shelf that sat above the compressor hump and held my fermenters split down the middle, launching the fermenters into the door. Both fermenters hit the deck and started distributing their contents over the entire floor, including a bit of carpet and some cardboard boxes which are going to be a bugger to remove and will stink before I can manage it. Had a party on Friday night that this brew was destined for, we now have no booze (this can be rectified, but still...). I watched 32L of beer go down the drain via the storeroom floor. I damn near cried. I saved a couple litres in the bottom of one of them, but it's not worth kegging - I'll just bottle that and drink it in a few weeks. As you can see at the bottom of the fermenters, I saved about 8L. This I'll bottle and use to console myself in a few weeks when they carb up the old fashioned way. This was my first attempt at using gladwrap on the fermenters - for the record, that's +1 for lids and airlocks.
I'm not a fortunate brewer.
I'm not a fortunate brewer.