The dangers of distilling!

[EchoSevenNine]

So...

Just finished my 2nd stripping run of my cornflake mash on saturday morning.

10 litres of strip in my nice big glass carboy, smelling and looking fine. Lifted it to tip it into the boiler for the spirit run snd voila...



Arse broke clean off the carboy, flooded the garage and left me with 3 hours in casualty, great!

[Mr Mac]

Holy Cow - that’s rough!

How the heck did the carboy break like that?

[EchoSevenNine]

God knows, Mac.

I can only imagine there was a hairline crack in the carboy somewhere.

[gaza the instructor]

Hay buddy you go careful there.
Make you feel better, the boss absolutely loves it, it is in pride
of place with her hand turned fruit bowl.

[EchoSevenNine]

Ahh, you have to keep them sweet!

[gaza the instructor]

Normally I feed her raw meat, but not on a Tuesday!!

[Easydrinker]

Commiserations dude.
it is just over a year since I decided to to stick my hand in a moving lawnmower.
I still feel it.
Losing good glassware almost brings me to tears.!

Pre-surgery.jpg

Robert.

[Mash]

Ouch. The lower cut was close to being very serious indeed.

Large glassware is very dangerous. This is one I the reasons I have retired most of my 54litre carboys.

[EchoSevenNine]

Jesus, Easy, thats a bad one!

[gaza the instructor]

The object of the exercise gentlemen, is to finish the race intact.
Went to school with a guy who had 5 fingers and a thumb on each
hand, caused a riot in the maths class.

[billythekid]

WOW!

Get better real soon!
At least you've got alcohol to keep it sanitary

Bill

[gaza the instructor]

What about towels??

[phantom]

Well, as much as I sympathize, if you've made wines etc, for any length of time, you will have heard of many instances of carboys, demi-johns or whatever you want to call them, breaking........

Mostly, it's just loss of the booze that's the result, but WTF, it's glass. Not necessarily "good" glass, but the cheapest formulation so it can hold water or whatever, so carefully does it etc........

Hope the injuries heal quickly

[EchoSevenNine]

I'll be sticking to the Demijohns, from now on, Phantom.

Still glass, but they're a sturdy wee bugger compared to the carboys.

[Easydrinker]

Don't leave one outside on a frosty morning, you will probably pick it up minus its bottom.

Robert.

[phantom]

Weird that given it seems to be so many different "types" of glass.

I have plenty of the usual UK style DJ's, but also the US style former "water bottle" type and some of the onion shaped ones that come in the plastic baskets.

I've not had any of the water bottle type ones break on me yet, but I've had one "onion" and a couple of normal size/style DJ's break.

Sure, it's just "packaging" but what makes one type better over another, I don't know.

If I'm using glass of any size, I try to use a pump to transfer between containers so that any glass could only break when cleaning it i.e. no real weight that could stress any flaws in the material.

[Mash]

Yes indeed. Never lift the larger carboys full.
The 'whale ' caravan pumps are brilliant for that job.