Disaster City
It was one of those days where anything that could have gone wrong, pretty much did. To begin the day, our crusher crapped out and decided it was a good time to blow an o-ring to hold the rollers together. Thankfully we were able to rig it up to finish the crush, but it looks now like we are going to have to have a talk with the folks over at Barley Crusher.
EDIT: Looks like this might be normal for our Barley Crusher. Thanks for the heads up Patrick.
After that we were cleaning out the equipment and Trav stumbled backwards and smashed the flip switch for the pump. There are a few bonuses to this, first is that it still kind of works. Second is that we get an exciting sparkling light show when it gets turned off.
Topping the night off included a battle between Travis and the kettle. The kettle scored first with some cuts to the knuckles and a pulled chest muscle. But Travis still thinks he won considering we got 10 gallons of pumpkin ale out of it.
For those heathens who aren’t following us on twitter yet, here are some pictures we posted up during the process.
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” – Henny Youngman
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by tsmith
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IS this the pumpkin ale you’ll be enjoying with Thanksgiving dinner? Bet it’ll be delicious!
Sure is Hannah.