Silly mistake thread. List yours here.

[crookedeyeboy]

Haha these are well funny! I nearly fell off my seat about the mash tun falling over too!

Im getting worried now as I havent had anything major apart from open taps....but now Ive gone and said it!....bugger

[WishboneBrewery]

Im getting worried now as I havent had anything major apart from open taps....but now Ive gone and said it!....bugger

I've been keeping my gob shut on here for ages! Worst I've done is not fully shut a tap and had a slight dribble issue!

[Tony01]

never a good idea to fight hormonally driven women:(

ain't that the truth!

Sad that we have to grovel... how we suffer for our art!

[micmacmoc]

I don't believe how stupid I am...I rread this thread, went into the garage to pour off 23Lt mild....yup, the fermenter had the tap open. Bloody hell. Its been a long day (boiler packed up 1/2 way through as well.
This sarah hughes had better be worth it!

[Capper20]

Forgot to add hop strainer and poured in 1st mash, saw said hop strainer on side and thought that's odd.

Lesson learned: 66C is still too hot for hands.

[beer taster]

I normally have minor issues small leaks etc, but I've had one major disaster. I didn't check the hose clips on my HERMS heat exchanger and half way through the mash I managed to pump 15L of sticky wort all over my garage floor. I was in the house having lunch at the time
Moral of the story - stick to a liquid lunch in the garage while brewing.

[EliteEvil]

I had a barrel and must have forgotten to vaseline the lid properly or something. Still the beer was fine, just had to take the lid off to get the beer out at a reasonable speed. Forgot to put the lid back on though and a week or so later when I came for some more it was like dregs left in a glass overnight.

Also to leaving taps open, did that a few weeks ago in the lab on my separating funnel. Thankfully I had left a flask underneath it that I hadn't bother to tidy up properly.

[Madbrewer]

Forgetting to attach the hop strainer to the kettle before boiling is the classic one, do it once and it's silly, do it for the sixth or seventh time and it's practically Alzheimer's.

Even more annoying when it's on your tick sheet & you still forget *7 times a year -doh!

[bigdave]

I Think my biggest balls up has been measuring out 800g of sugar from a 2kg bag then absent mindedly emptying the bag with the remaining 1200g of sugar into the wort. It was 10 mins later when I couldn't work out why there was 800g of sugar still on the scales that it clicked!?!

[pantsmachine]

I Think my biggest balls up has been measuring out 800g of sugar from a 2kg bag then absent mindedly emptying the bag with the remaining 1200g of sugar into the wort. It was 10 mins later when I couldn't work out why there was 800g of sugar still on the scales that it clicked!?!

Mmmmn, that's a 'good' mistake!

[DarloDave]

Not properly securing the output side of the IC and having a good dose of scalding hot water squirt at me, it could have been worse though! Who was it who accidently let it spill on their bare foot, and posted a pic of a foot which was basically just one big blister.

[thankyousam]

The only major mistake to date was forgetting the Protafloc in our attempt at a batch of Sierra Nevada. It's now a tasty and hoppy beer, if somewhat cloudy.

[mysterio]

I dry hopped a mild once with hops that had been sitting out all summer in the porch, not in an airtight container... whole keg tasted like blue cheese a day later

[DrewBrews]

I had a pint of Kelham Island's Best Bitter the other day at a beer festival and it had a distinctly cheesy aroma.

I wonder what sort of infection causes it?

[mysterio]

I don't think it was an infection, I think it's just the smell of old hops. Maybe some kind of oxidation reaction with the hop oils.

Whenever my girlfriend brews with me and I give her some hops to smell (which I think smell great), she always screws up her face and says they smell like 'cheesy feet'.