BeerBorg

I thought I'd share a recent failure that was exposed yesterday. My neighors wives like a fruity beers. I made a cheap extract concoction over the summer with light DME, 1oz cascade, sugar , 05 yeast and added blueberry extract at keg time.

I brewed this again a few weeks ago and decided to split the batch into a couple of 2.5s. One blue and one blackberry. I added blueberry and filled keg one. I added blackberry to keg 2, and tilted my fermenter a little and started filling it.

I walked away for a minute and got distracted with something. BAD MOVE. I came back and my tubing was filled with trub and all clogged. I pulled it out hoping not much made it into the keg.

Well, I tapped it yesterday and the damn keg was clogged. I could not get it to push anything through the beer line. I tried cleaning the drip tube by blowing some co2 in it but it clogged right back up.

I dumped 2.5 gallons of what we call Blackberry CAB (Cheap Ass Beer) down the drain. It smelled like blackberry pie.

NOTE TO SELF - Pay attention when brewing, bottling or kegging!

brewnewb wrote:I walked away for a minute...

Ouch. Wife makes fun of me when I grab an empty glass, my phone, roll of paper towels, etc when I head towards the garage to do anything brewing related. I've been burned before.

Yeah, in spite of the fact that there is definitely down time while brewing, when it all hits the fan, you better be ready.

At least it wasn't a premium recipe. CAB is, more or less, expendable.

Sorry to hear about the loss. I think we all get comfortable and when we lose focus that ONE TIME we get bit in the ass.