Strange Brew*

[footfootfoot]

Tonight I bottled up the Pumpernickel ale. I got all my previously washed and sanitized empties from the basement and scouted around for a few that I drank while working down there and didn't bother washing out.

Being the Virgo that I am, I needed to clean and sanitize the bottles again, especially the dirty ones. I looked inside them and one had only a little mold and the other one still had some yeast and beer left in it and a nice carpet of slimey yuckiness. That one gets the extra bleach and long soak.

I made it through the already clean ones and hit up the slightly moldy one, all good, then attacked the slimy one. I saw the mold mat had risen up in the bottle and I tried to dump it out. Usually they just ooze on out in a gloopy sort of way, but this bugger was stubborn and I started shaking the shit out of the bottle and nada. I took a closer look at the slime to see if I could coax it out with a chopstick or something.

Nope. Dead mouse.

Which is why you always clean and inspect your bottles before you fill them.

I also built a wort chiller.


*As you may recall the MacGuffin in that movie was a mouse placed in a beer bottle by Doug and Bob in an attempt to get free beer from the beer store.
Hilarity ensues.
They all live happily ever after.