Stir bar stupidity
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:15 am
by breyton
Anyone besides me do this... Making a 2 liter starter in an erlynmeyer flask and near the end of my boil when I decide I should drop in my stir bar to sterilize it... and BOOM... huge, instant boiler over and the stove is a mess.
Just glad my wife wasnt around to see that...
Anyone else discover this unforseen consequence... or is it just me being Justin..
Re: Stir bar stupidity
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 10:03 am
by Who is John Malt?
breyton wrote:Anyone besides me do this... Making a 2 liter starter in an erlynmeyer flask and near the end of my boil when I decide I should drop in my stir bar to sterilize it... and BOOM... huge, instant boiler over and the stove is a mess.
Just glad my wife wasnt around to see that...
Anyone else discover this unforseen consequence... or is it just me being Justin..
I put mine in before it goes on the heat. No problema.
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:03 pm
by Bugeater
My only problem with stirbars is that I keep dumping the damned things into the fermenter when I pitch the yeast. Yes, I do know all the tricks for avoiding that but I always seem to space it off at the last minute. For that reason I always have 3 or 4 around. Don't know exactly how many, some are in fermenters.
Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 3:35 am
by Gucci Pilot
Yeah, I got bad luck when it comes to stir bars. On the last batch, I forgot to put the stir bar in before the boil, so I threw the stir bar in during the boil. I'm still cleaning that crap off of the range. However, my biggest problem is that I usually dump the stir bar in with the starter. Like I did this time, again.
Justin, if you are keeping count, that's 8 stir bars so far.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:38 am
by Danno
I thought I had lost a stir bar and then a month ago, I found it in a corny after about two years. I must have added a starter to that corny to work the FG down. It was a Barley Wine.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:57 am
by Who is John Malt?
Gucci Pilot wrote:Yeah, I got bad luck when it comes to stir bars. On the last batch, I forgot to put the stir bar in before the boil, so I threw the stir bar in during the boil. I'm still cleaning that crap off of the range. However, my biggest problem is that I usually dump the stir bar in with the starter. Like I did this time, again.
Justin, if you are keeping count, that's 8 stir bars so far.
Maybe fashion a knitted lanyard and lash them to the side of the Erlenmeyer?
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 12:51 pm
by brewmaster68
been there...done that!!
Scott
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:42 am
by SunkenBier
I was laughing when i heard bugeaters stir bar count for pouring it into the primary. Whats it up to now?