Reminder: Moderation while brewing

thinker99 · 7 months

Black Out Stout?

homosapienssapiens · 7 months

I consider myself lucky if I don't wake up actually inside my fermentor after a brewing session, so your session sounds like it went just fine.

Weenie · 7 months

I'm usually too focused to drink heavily when brewing. I get running around and messing with equipment and I'll often forget I've got a beer handy. In general though, I'm well aware of what can happen on an empty stomach. Glad everything seems to have turned out okay.

vertigoacid · 7 months

I nearly burned down the house when we all passed out in the middle of a boil. I had set a 1 hour alarm to wake up and check it at the end and do the final hops. Woke up 4 hours later to a house full of acrid white smoke that smelled like the worst burned marshmallows ever, the aluminum from the base of the pot melted into my stove, and one giant chunk of smoldering hard black carbon/sugar mass

Took weeks for the smell to go away

DeleriumTrigger · 7 months

I sometimes feel like I have more batches go this way than not. The only brew days where I'm sober are either the ones I brew alone (maybe 1/10 tops?) or if we got wasted the previous night and are too hungover to drink anymore.

brewtang · 7 months

i like to smoke the ganja while brewing

ajr0303 · 7 months

Another reason why brewing should be a group activity. Usually, a drunk group provides enough checks and balances to make sure that everything goes according to plan.

SomethingNicer · 7 months

I'm not gonna lie, this has happened a few times to me.... I think it says something about your brew skills if you can finish your steps properly while blacked out..... Be careful though.... I haven't yet ruined a batch, but I can only imagine how heartbreaking it is.

MarsColonist · 7 months

I dont start drinking till I get a rolling boil.. that way Im not so completely buzzed I dont feel like cleaning up

lolbacon · 7 months

I had a similar experience this weekend bottling. We were way short on our bottle supply, so we had to go get a Great Lakes sample pack and slam beers to meet our quota. We were literally calling people asking them to come help us drink beer.

kreaturesleeper · 7 months

Ive done this before, alot actually. Thankfully I write EVERYTHING down, and update my recipe on my computer throughout the process. Ive woken up to read things such as "added 2 tsp of cinnamon, now it smells like pure cinnamon, bad fucking call you surly bastard." It did however turn out great.

Mishkan · 7 months

This is one of my favorite threads in r\homebrewing now.

memphisbelle · 7 months

Last time I did this was during a double batch, 2 5 gallons in a row. I started drinking when I put the chiller in on the 1st one. Needless to say, I had some healthy starters for both and woke up to beer on the ceiling and krausen all over the floor. The beers turned out just fine.

AgentJohnson · 7 months

I usually stick to one while brewing. Any more and i don't trust my fastidiousness

Shoegaze99 · 7 months

Too much on brew day leads to bad decisions.

Over the summer I did a light, zesty summer ale that was meant to be made with lemon. Discovered at the very end of brew day that the lemon I thought I had was gone. Rats!

But instead of just accepting that I was now making a light pale ale that would still be great for the summer, I scoured the fridge in search of something to replace the lemon. Figured I could be creative - which is dangerous when you've had a few. Found a bottle of key lime juice.

Which, I came to find out, is nothing at all like lime juice.

But in it went, without thinking it through or checking on the ingredient.

Let's just say that my best beer was not the result.

wartornhero · 7 months

I learned that lesson on my first double batch. I was quite inebriated and decided to add some brown sugar to my fermenter on one of my beers because the gravity was "too low". Ended up adding too much sugar and having to put a blow off tube on a fermenting bucket. It ended up almost undrinkable. I slowly have been getting rid of it through forcing myself to drink it or giving it away. I had one of the lips of faith beers as my third or fourth beer. It was between the 2 batches. At 10% and not tasting like 10% it knocked me on my ass pretty quick.

that057guy · 7 months

Was a little over zealous dumping iodophor out of my six and a half gallon carboy and it crumbled in my hands taking 6 of my fingertips with it. Good thing fingerprints are overrated! Take care with scalding liquids, large glass containers and (for heavens sake) beer-to-be my fellow human beings.

ikilledyourcat · 7 months

hahahahaahaahahaha i fucked up soooooo many batches because i got wasted while waiting for the water to boil!!!!!!!

BarkingLeopard · 7 months

I limit myself to 1 beer during the mash and 1 during the boil, as that's my normal drinking pace in any event.

The best part for me is running around like a mad man once the boil is over, trying to get everything finished and put away. Then I walk my sweaty ass down to my local 24 hour convenience store and stand in their walk-in BMC cooler until the 32 degree air cools me down. On the way home from that, I walk up to "the dock" (my local beer bar has a section that faces the sidewalk and sells bottled beer to go) and buy a few beers I haven't had before, then shower and sip those.

stealth1129 · 7 months

Relax. Don't worry, have a home brew!

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