Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:43 am
Well, my inner-idiot has once again played with my beer. I *regretfully* figured out the problem. Rather embarrassing story, really. Um...I told my wife about my IPA and she had a taste of it to confirm that it was indeed very salty. Well, as I was frantically trying to figure out why, Mrs. Chooch remembered that there was a night a few weeks back where I was wasted and she saw me come back into the house, grab the can of mortons salt, and head back out to where I keep my freezer.
Bang! It hit me like Ike Turner!
Short story long, I had dropped the temp in my freezer for laagering. I got lazy and decided to just crash it instead of bringing it down a few degrees at a time. Well, that night (and many "Bigfoot’s" later), I went to check on things and found that my blow off jug had frozen solid. Make sense, I crashed the temp faster than the liquid in the carboy could change with it resulting in my freezer being on for a long while, freezing the blow off jug. Sooooo, in my drunkenness, I added a butt load of salt to the jug to drop the freezing point and melt the water.
Now, forgetting liquid contracts as it cools and a vacuum would be created in the carboy, I checked the blow off jug several days later to find that it was empty! "Huh? What the f**k? How did that happen?†thinking to myself. My inner-idiot reasoned, "Well maybe it just bubbled dry?" I refilled the jug and went about my merry way, immediately forgetting the entire episode just as easily as forgetting that I had added the salt several days before.
Well, we all know how this story ended....I'll be dumping this beer.
I can hear Carlos Mencia in the back of my head yelling, "DED DEE-DEEH!!!"
Big Chooch
I don't have a neat little quote because I'm not that cool.
