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I broke four in one week, prior to that I'd never broken one

Ist off, I'm usually drunk by the time it comes to aerate the wort and pitch the yeast.

In the case of the watch the rotted old leather band decided to give way as I was furiously stirring the wort before pitching the yeast. In the case of the end of the faucet, it came loose when I disconnected my ...

I doubt it would be the grommet, I dropped my watch complete with skanky, cracked leather band into the fermenter and the result was the best bloody beer I've ever brewed. Oh yeah, apart from the watch I've done the dropped nto the fermenter the grommet and the end of the kitchen faucet, complete ...

My Coopers fermenter hasn't bubbled in ages and I kinda prefer not hearing the bloody thing go blub blub in t the middle of the night.

My Coopers fermenter also stands up to the airlock test but has a leak and therefore never bubbles anymore...... which kinda makes the coopers airlock test redundant

I'd hang on a bit longer if I were you. I kegged a hefferweizen @ 1020 and it was fine, tasted like a heff, not too sweet and improved with age in the keg. Having said that it sat on 1020 for a week after me trying to get primary fermentation going again with fresh yeast to no avail. IMHO If its ...

I'll give a side byu side comparison a go next time I do brews in the same day, but yeah, same as lethal, seems to be a mixed bag of opinions on this one.

when you have cooled the wort down to below 80f and it is at a pitchable temperature you have a couple of options, you can create a whirlpool and rack to wort into the primary leaving all the solids behind, or you can pour the whole wort solids and all into the primary and then add water.

Just ...

Mate, my watch fell into my fermenter whilst I was aerating it! Haven't racked it to the secondary yet, but the hydrometer samples smell and taste ok.

I'm considering racking my wort at the cold break into the primary fermenter before adding water. I've previously thrown the whole lot in figuring that the more nutrients the better, but I'm guessing that by racking I'll be leaving less of a trub for my yeasties to settle into.

Any opinions?

It helps to have a better half who's into homebrewing, otherwise I reckon I would have been in the doghouse long ago.

Expect to drop a hydrometeror two, I'm on to my fourth!

Brewing Facility? Ha, I laugh at your brewing facility! :lol:

I brew on an electric stove in the kitchen, front closet has two secondary carboys in it, bathroom cupboard has two primary fermenters in it. The clothes closet has a stack of bottles conditioning. we have 4 fridges total- two are ...

After reading this post I did an experiment with the last bit of my kegged hefferwiezen. I dropped the temp to around 2 degC and pumped up the pouring pressure from 10 to 15 PSI. Bitter and horrible, like VB, all delicate flavours gone. Warmed the keg dropped the PSI back and voila my homebrew ...

I just tried the bottle opening trick on the front bumper of my 1969 Galaxie, never thought of it before, works a treat.

Got to the States, discovered a crapload of quality craft breweries and microbreweries, found a store with over 650 different bottled beers (Whip In, Austin, TX), dicovered beer over here is so much cheaper than Oz (18 bucks a carton for the good stuff, 11 bucks for the weak as piss amber water) got ...

I'm gonna call it "Old Sweating Watch Band" an IPA with a delicate hint of cracked leather

Hey all,

Thought I'd ressurect this topic mainly cos its always amusing and reassuring to see that other people have had mid brewing homebrew disasters apart from onesself.

Brewed a cream ale last night and was filing the fermenter from the faucet when the cap at the end of the faucet fell off ...

I got lazy and couldn't be bothered rinsing them out so it turned into a good excuse to switch to kegging

I just use a one step sanitiser and ignore the stains, never had an infection. I have a friend that literally racks the beer from his fermenter into his secondary to clear the primary for the brew he is making at the time. He then just throws in some sanitiser swishes it around and pours in the ...