a true brewing catastrophe

So, if you are brewing beer and you are using a new airlock and rubber stopper, and the rubber stopper is a little big for the carboy, then you should probably stop and go look for the rubber stopper you have always used vs. trying to be an Angus MacGyver and improvising. More so, if the rubber stop keeps popping out because it is a bit too big and you decide take a 2 foot long twist tie and wrap it around the carboy top to hold in the rubber stop, much like a champagne bottle, then you should start seeing some red flags. After all that if your beer does not start to bubble after two days then you should probably start to get really suspicious. And finally, if it is the middle of the night and you are awoken by a very loud explosion you should probably go check it out. If not, you will walk down stairs at 6:00 o'clock in the morning to the deliciously sweet smell of unfermented beer all over your kitchen floor and laundry room.

Yeah, I really wish I would have taken some pictures but my camera was upstairs, and by the time I waded into the laundry room I was completely cover with beer and glass and going upstairs was clearly not an option. I am so thankful that we were all upstairs asleep when it blew, because someone could have really gotten hurt. There was glass shrapnel stuck in the boxes that were in the laundry room, and the towel I had wrapped around the carboy was completely ripped apart. Glass and beer was everywhere. It was really really bad. It took me two hours of cleaning just to get the kitchen and laundry room presentable before Leslie and the boys woke up.

homebrew

Liberty Cream Ale

The Christmas homebrew is a brewen.