Comments on: Worst Brew Day Ever http://www.bamfbeer.com/2006/07/02/worst-brew-day-ever/ Sophisticated Swill, Generously Applied™ Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:47:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gregory Haase http://www.bamfbeer.com/2006/07/02/worst-brew-day-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-537 Gregory Haase Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:34:43 +0000 http://www.bamfbeer.com/?p=27#comment-537 The only thing I can say at this point... you might as well have pitched the yeast and let it sit. You never no, some times you get lucky. We had a terrible problem with the Maibock - the false bottom on the boil kettle got clogged, and we ended up straining the wort through a hopsack and into the fermenter. There was so much crap (I hate pellet hops) that we had to clean the hop sacks out periodically, and the whole process took more than an hour. We figured out there was no way in hell that batch would be any good, but as you've tasted, the Maibock is actually pretty good. Granted, there's a bit of chill haze from all the crap that made it into the fermenter, but considering all of our brew-day issues, it was a pleasant suprise. And of course, if the batch does go hideously bad, you at least have the experience to identify a hideously bad batch in the future - not to mention and even funnier story when you look back at it 5 years from now. The only thing I can say at this point… you might as well have pitched the yeast and let it sit. You never no, some times you get lucky. We had a terrible problem with the Maibock – the false bottom on the boil kettle got clogged, and we ended up straining the wort through a hopsack and into the fermenter. There was so much crap (I hate pellet hops) that we had to clean the hop sacks out periodically, and the whole process took more than an hour.

We figured out there was no way in hell that batch would be any good, but as you’ve tasted, the Maibock is actually pretty good. Granted, there’s a bit of chill haze from all the crap that made it into the fermenter, but considering all of our brew-day issues, it was a pleasant suprise.

And of course, if the batch does go hideously bad, you at least have the experience to identify a hideously bad batch in the future – not to mention and even funnier story when you look back at it 5 years from now.

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