Silly mistake thread. List yours here.

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Getting married

Me too, why did we do it.........

[Aleman]

Leaning on the side of the small mash tun at a small commercial brewery, after mashing in 125Kg of grain . . . . to discover it was on gimbals to make it easy to empty when the mash was over. . . . . Very quick work with a shovel sorted it out though


Pushing too hard when attaching my CFC to my plastic 10 gallon boiler at the end of the boil . . . to stand there with the tap in my hand and the hot wort shooting over the patio.. . . .

. . . . Trying to stop the flow of boiling wort with my bare hand . . . .


. . . . Twice

[196osh]

Mostly just tap stuff. Ended up draining a whole load of fresh wort straight from the mash on to the floor once. Kitchen was sticky for weeks.

[FlourPower]

Poured the brew into a bottling bucket for the first time. Then poured sugar in. Now when adding sugar to the bottles it's easy to remember how much to put in. When adding to essentially a second FV. I might have put a Kilo of sugar in rather than 300g.

We hit one 2l plastic bottle with an axe and I tell ye there was not a drop left in the thing. So much pressure. I did manage to rescue the beer with a move from bottles to FV, some new yeast and some Hop juice to bitter again.

[Horatio]

Taking a mash temp' reading with a long glass thermometer and then trying to stir the grains with it! Snap! Of course it broke way down in the grains and not at the top!! What a plonker!

[GeordieBrewer]

Trasferring post boil Hop bag to the FV and forgetting about it.. letting the wort cool, pitching the yeast, and a week later.... Hello! what's this in the bottom of the fermenter!!!!
Brew's been bottled for 3 months and still very, very bitter! Time will Tell!

[rick_huggins]

Years ago using kits I told my newbie mate to throw away the instructions and follow some I gave hime from the web..

3 weeks later laughing my erse off when he asked me, "when do I add the brewing sugar"? LOL

Turned out better than mine tho

[paulcav]

In my early days of all grain, leaving until next day to empty and clean the mash tun out I'll never do that again!

Leaving taps open and forgetting the hop strainer all the time.

Amazingly still on my first hyrometer after 10 years of all-grain brewing!

[albacore]

Little mistake on my first ever kit brew - used 23 litres of water, rather than making up to 23L

albacore

[196osh]

Broke my bloody thermometer today.

[escapizm]

AG#003 Old yella.

I'd read last week the thread on to suck or not to suck the siphon. I’m a sucker. I thought surely the miniscule amount of bacteria would not be to big an issue. Anyway did the doings then when I come to siphon I thought "right a good old suck and I’ll get this in one..." I put a full 5 bar vacuum on the tube end and watched the fluid coming down the tube, previous sucks has taught me not to give in to easy or you have to do it again.

Anyway I got a windpipe full of wort only to cough and splutter the lot into FV, as rest of wort was hot on its heels I just continued siphoning...

Thinking of calling this one Old Yella Spit , I’ve since tried as you do and all is well.

AG#004 TTL

This ones a standard favourite on here so ill cut to the chase. As a self builder whom has built all his own kit I needed another project. Id kept eye out for extraction hood on ebay and freecycle only to have next door but one neighbour put one out for the "rag and bone" that was the K9's kahunas, better than one in our kitchen!

I had considered its past life so I removed filters which were only stainless steel mesh and put in dishwasher. I got brew on and all was going well when I checked and noticed some condensate dripping back in to brew when boil was on, hey ho I thought condensate is pure water. I then noticed a few straw coloured drips and the reality of the several years extraction of curry, bolognaise, chicken dinner etc etc concentrated extract adhered to the inside of the stainless steel hood dawned on me. The mass of steam was cleaning it so I quickly removed it and gloup was dripping in my ale

Mmmm this could be the best thing I’ve ever tasted, much like those other world changing accidental discoveries http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2005/10/a ... scoveries/ so watch this space.


Last one... i acidentaly turned boiler on dry and destroyed my plasctic bucket, as i had removed thermal cut off (was cutting off during boil) it glowed red and set bucket on fire.

[Jerry Cornelius]

Done this yesterday.

My bottle of Star San had sprung a leak in the bottom of the bottle. I brought it into the kitchen to try and seal it with gaffer tape. Had the bottle on the kitchen work top, one of those black, high gloss surfaces . Today its got sort of pale whitish patches where the bottle was. The missus is going mental!

I'm not stupid, though. It's been put down to a mystery - luckily she didn't see me in there trying to fix the bottle. She's going to claim on the insurance, if she's successful I'll own up, otherwise, I have no idea what happened.

[Deebee]

dude, another mistake you are going to make. . . . Never never own up. . . Else you could be dead;-)

[Jon474]

Twenty minutes into my brewday I've just tipped water into my digital scales.

They don't work now (actually they were a bit cr*p anyway) not because I am waiting for the scales to dry out...but because I threw them the full length of the garden where they bounced quite badly. Digital scales don't fly well.

Now have to wait for wife to return from run to let me nip out and get another set.

[critch]

last week i dropped my bloody expensive thermometer into the mash tun

i found out it was bloody expensive and not waterproof

today i over tightened a jubilee clip on my transfer pump and it pinged into two, and the transfer pipe shot off spraying gallons of hot wort every where until i shut the pump off and jammed the pipe back on !

at least it wasnt the full 360 though!