Fellow Brewers --
Though we may be loathe to admit it, we all have some war stories to tell.
I would like to hear some of them.
I'll start with the first that comes to mind ...
I was once consulting for a greenhorn brewmaster in an unnamed city in an unnamed pub ...
It was only one of his first brews. He needed help mashing in. He turned on the kettle, turned on the agitator and he and I started dumping buckets of milled grain into the augur that went up to the mash tun. After nearly 500# I noticed some flour clouding out of the tun; I didn't think much of it, it happens some times.
But the cloud got much bigger and I started to suspect that something was wrong. I revealed to him my concerns. He went up to check the mash.
...
It turns out that he forgot to put the mash liquor into the tank!
Needless to say, we stopped mashing in. He started shoveling and I left the building. Oh, the agony. I stopped consulting shortly thereafter seeing as I wasn't there to reinvent the wheel.
- John
Though we may be loathe to admit it, we all have some war stories to tell.
I would like to hear some of them.
I'll start with the first that comes to mind ...
I was once consulting for a greenhorn brewmaster in an unnamed city in an unnamed pub ...
It was only one of his first brews. He needed help mashing in. He turned on the kettle, turned on the agitator and he and I started dumping buckets of milled grain into the augur that went up to the mash tun. After nearly 500# I noticed some flour clouding out of the tun; I didn't think much of it, it happens some times.
But the cloud got much bigger and I started to suspect that something was wrong. I revealed to him my concerns. He went up to check the mash.
...
It turns out that he forgot to put the mash liquor into the tank!
Needless to say, we stopped mashing in. He started shoveling and I left the building. Oh, the agony. I stopped consulting shortly thereafter seeing as I wasn't there to reinvent the wheel.
- John
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