Home Brewing Fatality!

[pumblechook]

Hi Everyone

been reading the forum for ages, and also brewing for a long time.

Santa brought me a boiler for Christmas, so I made use of a rare day to myself to make my first Extract brew - Hopback Summer Lightning from Graham Wheeler's book.

All went well until I came to weigh out the hops, when I discovered this:

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Poor little bugger. I still used the hops!

[boingy]

It's all protein...


Here is your pic (you need a few posts before you are allowed to post pics!):

[pumblechook]

Great, thanks for posting it for me. wasn't expecting to see it in the packet!

[boingy]

You think you were surprised? How do you think the ladybird feels?

One minute he's wandering along daydreaming about greenfly and then next minute a very precise 113 gram rectangular cuboid of hops lands on his head. Not a good day at the office.

[pumblechook]

He's definitely gone to a bitter place.

[lee1]

bet the brew shop would have charged more if they had known

[Dennis King]

Hope your not a vegetarian.

[barneey]

At least you have a new name for the brew

[Jocky]

Good to know the hops haven't been doused in insecticide.

[GARYSMIFF]

Better than a 30g lump of mud I found in a Hop batch once.

[Rookie]

Good to know the hops haven't been doused in insecticide.

During hop growing season I like to see a bunch of these fellas, they eat aphids which damage hop plants which eliminates the need for pesticide.