What is your most embarrassing memory?
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Done that, but made the additional mistake of going up to the kitchen to wash some equipment. Only salvaged about two gallons.
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When I first started winemaking I was washing my equipment after getting my very first kit started. Carefully washed the hydrometer, rinsed it off and gave it a good shake to get the last few drops of water off. End of hydrometer!!!! Since then, I have bought three more as backups. Of course, with a drawer full of them, I have never broken another one.
They break into a million very small fine shards, don’t they.
Well, I was left with a stub in my hand and gass shards, splinters and dust fine particles on the floor. You don't make that mistake twice!
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Just had my most embarrassing moment. I made a number of batches of rhubarb wine and people have been enjoying it. For our big get together (19 people) on thanksgiving, I brought three bottles of it up from the cellar. All three were from a batch I had not opened yet. When I opened the first bottle, it blew the cork out as soon as I started to pull and foam came out the top of the bottle. Fortunately. it didn't blow the foam all over since I was standing next to the table where everyone was seated. It certainly got their attention though!
After a lot of jokes from everyone there, I tasted it and found it to be very good and the fizz was a pleasant addition. When people tried it they all opted for it and I had to get a couple more bottles up while the grape and blueberry wines were left untouched.
Sadly, I had to finish them off by myself
After a lot of jokes from everyone there, I tasted it and found it to be very good and the fizz was a pleasant addition. When people tried it they all opted for it and I had to get a couple more bottles up while the grape and blueberry wines were left untouched.
Sadly, I had to finish them off by myself
balatonwine
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I had a similar disaster. Not a hydrometer, but a custom hand blown crystal wine glass a very good friend gave me as a birthday gift. And you are right.... one does not make that mistake twice. But for me, once was very heartbreaking. Was sad about that for years. I think I am still sad about it.
Good thing I did not break my hydrometer, as my first one (over twenty years old now), has a built in thermometer, with mercury. Probably not the best thing to break in a winery......
Ohio Bob
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I bought 6 gallons of Riesling from the local shop. They had huge plastic barrels of juice and would pump as much juice as you had a container to hold. The juice had already started working so when I got it home, sprinkled in my dry yeast it was ready to burst. I stirred it vigorously to dissolve the yeast and a geyser of juice exploded out of the carboy and drenched the ceiling. Surprisingly the whole incident lasted about 1 second. I lost about 2 gallons and spent an hour mopping the floor.
