What is your worst disaster?

Not sure what happened there-I thought I posted it but it never showed up, so a few hours later I tried again.
I also had a cat push a tap open and drain a keg of saison-I went to the garage to fill my glass and heard a hissing noise and smelled the saison running across the garage floor. Hey, it's only beer, I can always brew it again. People here take their beer way too seriously.

 

I broke a 4 pack of Dogfish Punkin while I was walking to a Pitt tailgate. My friends and I decided to take the university bus to the game since we figured we'd drink. I put my beers on ice, which melted and soaked the bottom of my 4pack. As soon as we're walking to the game, right in front of Heinz field, all four of my beers fall through casing and smash on the sidewalk. We swept up the glass as much as we could in the situation, but still... shit.

 

I left a case of New Glarus Enigma in my car 2 releases ago during the summer.

It was sorta like the 3F hot batch.

NOT.

 

I had two growlers collide in my backseat. Total cost of the growler and contents - about $15. Cost to have my car detailed to get the stink out - $100 plus tip.

 

I knocked a Curmudgeon out of the drinks fridge and it exploded all over the floor and the bottom shelf of the fridge. That was a mess to clean up.

 

Trying to be a hero by carrying 3 Magnums of Belgians...and I just dropped the Duvel !

 

nothing too epic, but i drove a 6er of fresh Two Hearted from indiana to NH for a BA out there who had never tried it, walked in his front door and the bottom gave out - 4 bottles smashed and 2 survived. needless to say, i waived any trade that had been arranged and just helped him clean up.

oh, and i went overboard on the first homebrew i ever made, attempting a bourbon-vanilla-coffee porter with a kit for the porter base. it ended up being called 'decapitated skunk' for good reason.

 

My dog knocked my freshly poured Sculpin off the coffee table with his tail. At least it wasn't very fresh

 

Spilling an entire bottle of stone cherry chocolate stout all over the beige carpet. Fuck. My. Life.

 

Worst disaster? Had a ticket to the Hill Farmstead Harvest Festival (purchased well in advance and planned this trip out), drove (7) hours by myself to get there on Friday (the rest of the BA group arrived up there the day before and I got a late start because I took the day off but still ended up working), arrived in Burlington that evening and got into an accident 1/2 block from my hotel. Vehicle was towed and couldn't be driven, was picked up by the hotel courtesy van and took all the contents out which had to be loaded into the room. My nerves were shot, went to the hotel bar and the best choice was a Long Trail IPA, drank 1/2 pint and had to leave the rest *meh*. Went back to the room and laid awake in bed until 4:00 AM. Woke up at 9:00 and started working the phone with the insurance company, car rentals, and the place that towed my transpo, finally settled things around 2:00 in the afternoon and the HF gig closed down at 5:00. I was already an hour away and by the time I got there it would give me 1.5 hrs which seemed like a total waste of time to stand in long lines for growler fills (and Abner wasn't even available, the biggest reason I went up there) and sleep in the back seat of a rental van and only enjoy a beer or two. At that point, I drove straight home out of disgust and being totally p*ssed off. Went up there with the hopes of stocking up on alot of good beer and having a great time and pretty much made a long trip to pay for a hotel, get into an accident, and come straight home. The van is still sitting at the body shop and they can't get to it until October 28th at the earliest and the insurance stops paying for the rental next week which means the rest will be paid out of pocket until the end of November when it's done, requiring another (14) hours in the car going up there again to get it and drive it home. Damn straight I'll turn this into a few days so I can hit all the places and buy all the beer I missed this last trip. On the bright side, at least there won't be any lines at HF and the chance of Abner being available will hopefully be higher, pick up some Heady, and Lawson's. Bittersweet, but it would have been way cheaper and less stressful to stay home and toss a bottle or two from my cellar onto the pavement. I'm not making this story up and I have (5) other people from my group who can verify my story.

 

My worst beer disaster was the purchase of a bottle of Frangelic Mountain Brown!!!

 

Going through my beer cabinets yesterday one of the shelves fell off the supports and everything came crashing down. The shelf held a bunch of awesome stouts: Rare, 4x Parabola, Black Tuesday, Abyss, 7x BCBS from various years, multiples of Central Waters BB Stout and Peruvian Morning, 3x Black Butte XVIII, and a few others.

I was about to lose my shit, but had to act fast to start cleaning stuff up before beer started dripping through my downstairs neighbors ceiling. Dug through the pile of bottles and by some miracle the only casualties were a 2011 BCBS and a Peruvian Morning. The closet smelled pretty awesome

 

one of my teenagers decided to sneak a bottle out of my beer fridge... it ended up being a bottle of Abyss that I had been hanging on to. The next day I went out and bought a locking cabinet to act as my "cellar" to keep this from happening again

 

4 bombers of Epic Vertical 11-11-11 in one lunch sitting. Haha After is when I started paying attention to ABV.

 

I was going to a party and walking out to my car with a 6 pack for others to have and a 4 pack of my good beers at the time. The bottom of my 4 pack fell out and lost all 4 of my bottles to the garage floor. At te time it hurt as it was all beers I never had before. Now not so bad as I have since tried them. I know one was a 400 lb monkey. Forgot the rest. Lets just say I carry all 4 and 6 packs from the bottom now.

 

One time, I bought a bottle that Mikkeller made, then I opened it, then I tried to drink it.

This was my biggest disaster.

 

Funny, Voodoo Doughnut was my only tragedy. Then I drank one and realized gravity did me a favor.

 

My biggest disaster was when I crammed 2 HF growlers in a mini fridge. One growler was pressing against the bottom of the freezer section but I didn't think much of it. Needless to say I came down to my basement to grab some stuff a few days later and the floor is wet? I open the fridge to see the growler I stuck against the bottom if the freezer has exploded!!! I lost a $10 growler and $18 of Abner! Upset but glad it wasn't worse!

 

I had the door shelf break on the fridge in the garage and this happened.



2010 Dark Lord and a Victory at Sea. Sad sad day.

 

My mother in law had six CBS waiting for me at their house. Then the house burned to the ground. True story.