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[Taxi_Driver]

My home brew barrel has sprung a leak....out of the seal around the tap....tried to turn it to tighten it up....made the leak worse  So tipped it on its back....well its in the kitchen sink at about 45degress.....it was in the 'clearing' stage....so thats buggared that up 

Off to get a new barrel and tap tomorrow .... then hopefully pour the contents of leaky barrel into new.....hopefully it will still clear again....and hasnt ruined the whole batch 

Must of mopped up a bottle or 2 off the kitchen floor 

Any other homebrewers had a disaster like this ....

[Seth]

Similar Dave:

My late father endured my late mother's wrath in the wee small hours some years back

From memory, he'd put several gallons of elderflower champagne in the upstairs airing cupboard. Instructions were to cork each bottle lightly ... the old soldier misread this ... and corked 'em ... err ... tightly!

Jeees ...

[Ever Ready]

I used to do a lot of wine making, much to my fathers delight, fancied himself as my chief tester   other members of the family got fed up opening cupboards and wardrobes etc and finding demijohns of wine waking all sorts of noises.  Happy days

[Entwood]

If you were to visit our guest bedroom and lift the carpet, along one edge of the flooring is a very large, dark stain. The wall and ceiling above that stain took a lot of sealing/priming/painting to actually get paint to stick ......

All courtesy of a gallon of elderberry wine, made with extra sugar and a champagne yeast as an experiment (an attempt to increase the alcohol content), which decided to go ballistic and "erupted" with such force that only 1 pint was left in the fermenting jar .. the rest had hit the ceiling before running down the walls, ruining the carpet, and making the stain on the floorboards !!!

Homebrewing without the odd disaster is boring !!! 

[Sir Tigger KC]

If you were to visit our guest bedroom and lift the carpet, along one edge of the flooring is a very large, dark stain. The wall and ceiling above that stain took a lot of sealing/priming/painting to actually get paint to stick ......

All courtesy of a gallon of elderberry wine, made with extra sugar and a champagne yeast as an experiment (an attempt to increase the alcohol content), which decided to go ballistic and "erupted" with such force that only 1 pint was left in the fermenting jar .. the rest had hit the ceiling before running down the walls, ruining the carpet, and making the stain on the floorboards !!!

Homebrewing without the odd disaster is boring !!! 

I bet you were popular!! 

[Andy H]

My parents used to make the odd homebrew. One particularly odd brew was an attempt at elderflower wine which was left to ferment in in the airing cupboard in the bathroom.

After what seemed like weeks of an overpowering smell of elderflower they discovered that it was undrinkeable.

I still can't stand the smell of elderflower 40 years on.

[bigegg]

my dad made some fizzy cider - about 40 bottles. bottled them all (in glass bottles  ) and left them in the cupboard at the bottom of the steps to "finsh".
the pressure exploded one bottle, which then caused a chain reaction and burst every bottle - at 3am.
we had the neighbours out wondering if they should call the bomb squad