The Hat's Unsettling Dream

[FedoraDave]

I had a rough night last night. I couldn't seem to get comfortable; it took a while for me to fall asleep, which is unusual, and when I did finally get to sleep, I had a disturbing dream.

I'm anticipating bottling the Saison D'etre this weekend, and that's what my dream centered around.

For some reason, I was bottling it outdoors. For some other bizarre reason, I was doing it under a deck (my house doesn't have a deck, BTW). For another bizarre reason, I was racking it to another carboy instead of a bottling bucket, so maybe I was racking to a secondary, I don't know. But I do know that in my dream, I noticed the temp strip read around 90 degrees, and I was telling myself that was too warm to bottle, but I was going to go ahead anyway.

Then, somehow, the auto-siphon started backing up, and drawing the beer back into the primary, and churning it all up into what looked like a muddy mess. I used some wheat DME in this recipe, so I know it's going to be cloudy, but this looked like a mud puddle after a kid had just finished splashing in it. And I knew it was aerating the beer and clogging up the airlock, which was somehow still in the mouth of the carboy. I hadn't prepared anything ahead of time, and I needed a new, clean, sanitized airlock, so I was running back and forth trying to tend to that before things started overflowing.

Then some kids came along and starting messing around with all of this stuff, and potentially making it all worse than it was.

What a weird dream.

[RickBeer]

P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-I-S-T!

[John Sand]

I've had brew dreams, boat dreams, car dreams. That shrink didn't help a bit! (We won't be hearing from him anymore, )

[Beer-lord]

I don't believe dreams mean anything other than your mind trying to clear itself so that your body can rest. If my dreams were ever true i would be able to fly, I'd have a cleaner house and I'd be 10 lbs lighter. None of these things have happened and likely won't.

[mashani]

I once dreamed I lived in a house made entirely of glass, and walked around naked in it because the house was in the middle of some forest - so why not.

And then a huge tribe of monkeys surrounded my house and started throwing rocks at it.

[BigPapaG]

You know...

[jivex5k]

Damn, brewing is in your blood!

[FedoraDave]

Another weird thing is that I don't usually remember my dreams. I think I remembered this one because I was having a pretty restless night anyway.

[berryman]

Dave, brewing is in your blood and also in your subconscious state. A few brews before bed and you might dream of what's on your mind, too many beers and you will still dream but you won't wake up during them to remember them. I never believed there is a meaning to a dream, Just jumbo stuff in your head.

[Foothiller]

It's a good thing it all goes away when you wake up.

[The_Professor]

Probably nothing to the dream, so long as you were not brewing Cock Ale, in which case all bets would be off.

[FedoraDave]

No Cock Ale. I'm getting ready to bottle the Saison D'etre, which is Light DME, Wheat DME, Saaz hops, and a little crushed coriander seed. Probably the highest the temperature got on it was 77 or so. I checked the SG last night, and it attenuated more than I had calculated. There was a slight apricot taste to it, which I liked a lot.

I think I'm going to enjoy this beer, weird dream notwithstanding.

[RickBeer]

I don't believe dreams mean anything other than your mind trying to clear itself so that your body can rest. If my dreams were ever true i would be able to fly, I'd have a cleaner house and I'd be 10 lbs lighter. None of these things have happened and likely won't.

Only 10?

[Tabasco]

I dreamed that the flaked oats in my stout made the fermenter explode.

Oh, wait, that really happened in '11.