What Can Go Wrong On A Brew Day?

[manticle]

Little bit of practice and I seem to have reduced my brewdays from days like hatchy's to days like today. Able now to get distracted by things and still push out beer at the right gravity and volume.

Doesn't mean I stiil don't occasionally try and fill my cube with the tap still open (as I did today).

All part of the fun when you've finished swearing. Probably only lost 500mL so we can all cope.

 

[Hatchy]

As long as we can consume a dozen beers before we fill the HLT and maybe try burning something down a little first it sounds like a goer.will start the long wonder over from Melbourne now.

See you Friday, can you bring some beers? This amber may not last that long & I've only got 1 more batch ready to keg.

 

[Hatchy]

Little bit of practice and I seem to have reduced my brewdays from days like hatchy's to days like today. Able now to get distracted by things and still push out beer at the right gravity and volume.

Doesn't mean I stiil don't occasionally try and fill my cube with the tap still open (as I did today).

All part of the fun when you've finished swearing. Probably only lost 500mL so we can all cope.

That's the thing that really surprised me on Saturday, I didn't leave a tap open when it shouldn't be. I've done that enough times previously so I should've learnt my lesson by now.

 

[manticle]

I try very hard to only make each mistake about six times.

 

[chadjaja]

Another brewday today, another broken hydrometer :angry:

 

[Hatchy]

I was thinking about that after posting here. My hydrometer has somehow lasted over 12 years. It can't have long left before it becomes bits of broken glass stuck in my foot.

 

[Greg Lawrence]

Last friday night I milled 2 lots of grain for 2 different batches with the same base malt. Both lots of milled grain in identical buckets.
Do you think I could remember which was which at 6am saturday morning? Buggered if I could tell the difference between the 2.

 

[Hatchy]

Another good reason to not be overly organised.

 

[manticle]

When I've done that I've written on a tiny piece of paper what the brew is and popped it in the top of each grain container. Helps a lot the next day.

 

[Kieren]

Last friday night I milled 2 lots of grain for 2 different batches with the same base malt. Both lots of milled grain in identical buckets.
Do you think I could remember which was which at 6am saturday morning? Buggered if I could tell the difference between the 2.

A bit like having three cubes of simiiliar colour and OG wort and trying to figure out which is which because you though could remember without labeling them. I figured it out - after pitching the wrong yeast into the wrong beer. No real biggy, though. Wort was a second runnings beers brewed to clear out some hops from the freezer. It will now some sort amber ale, with oven toasted vienna malt, loads of NZ hops and fermented with a Kolsch yeast :blink:

 

[milob40]

lessons learnt in just one day.
1. never put down a brew when your pissed
2. never pressure filter beer when your pissed (bear foam all over shed)
3. contary to popular belief the tap on a fermenter is not self closing after sanitizing
4. yes malt extract and boiling water does burn your feet, see above fact no.3
5. i can confirm that a corny keg definately does not hold 23 ltrs, never answer the phone when racking from fermenter.
yes, i experienced all of this in 1 afternoon so now i brew in mornings only

 

[mje1980]

My brewday accidents reduced dramatically after i stopped playing benny hill music. Now, most of them go pretty smooth!!.

I have a few beers, but never more than 2 or 3, otherwise i start to forget to do stuff hehe.

 

[StewTurner]

Hatchy,

It seems to me that it's all a matter of perspective. Maybe you could call that a bad brew day, but it sounds to me like it was a great day on the piss!

 

[np1962]

Hatchy,
After reading this I am surprised you even considered doing a brew demo at the case swap this week! :lol:

 

[flano]

My first one was a horror show.

got a kegerator....didn't set it up.

Put down a brew ...left in fermenter on a Fri night...
Next morning woke at 4am...went to Fiji to go surfing for 3 weeks.

got home .

My mate comes around to help me set up everything..he brews in kegs.
hadn't done the lid up properly on fermenter.
didn't have a shifter big enough to fit the reg.
nothing is sanitized.
mate brings is 5 yr old kid.
my 4 yr old kid decides to watch.
the wife is shitty.
Kids are screaming for no apparent reason.
spill beer everywhere.
very unorganized
I am totally overwhelmed as I know nothing about gas or brewing or life it seems.
somehow get it kegged.

then procede to fug up the gassing as I have no idea what pressure and for how long.

I drink the first keg of flat beer thinking I am some sort of master brewer.


so
now.
I brew alone and sober.
I use a recipe sheet and never waver from the plan.

 

[Hatchy]

Hatchy,
After reading this I am surprised you even considered doing a brew demo at the case swap this week! :lol:

I could still do that if you want me to show you how not to brew.

It's possibly worth mentioning that my swap beer was brewed under adult supervision & that no kegs were emptied during the brewing of the swap beer.

 

[argon]

My brewday accidents reduced dramatically after i stopped playing benny hill music. Now, most of them go pretty smooth!!.

I LOLed!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Silo Ted]

The only thing that ruins my brew day is if I have a beer before Im finished. Even after one, if its after the boil breaks I get lazy, lose things, forget to watch the time, look up granny porn on the internet etc.

 

[argon]

The only thing that ruins my brew day is if I have a beer before Im finished. Even after one, if its after the boil breaks I get lazy, lose things, forget to watch the time, look up granny porn on the internet etc.

yep no beer for me on brewday... maybe, MAYBE, only one after first hop addition... i know manticle completly agrees with me here













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[bignath]

This saturday is Monthly Poker Night at my house.

We drink a lot. Play cards. Play darts. Listen to some good tunes, Got a big tv in the brewery/garage etc etc etc.

Thinking they will clean me out of a keg or two, so to prepare, i thought i would also use this occasion to knock out a batch or two of All Grain.
Might be able to convert some attendees to start brewing.

Think this is destined to fail big time.....

Might temporarily change thread title to: What is guaranteed to go wrong on brewday.