Biggest mistakes youve ever made brewing?

[Deleted member 127229]

I once dropped 100ml of tren hex into the floor because I knocked it off the stirrer. Wanted to cry lol. Had to restart the entire process again

 

[Luka.Halotestin]

LOL. Similar thing happened to me only it was my injectable Pump products (Arginine, Citrulline and Ornithine 100 mg each). It was around 200 ml of solution. It was not much money but I wanted to cry too.

 

[Laxbro88]

I once dropped 100ml of tren hex into the floor because I knocked it off the stirrer. Wanted to cry lol. Had to restart the entire process again

Fuck I would cry then throw shit lol

 

[Deleted member 127229]

Also I remember last year on my cut I was trying to syringe filter on anavar. The cramps. My God.

 

[Laxbro88]

Also I remember last year on my cut I was trying to syringe filter on anavar. The cramps. My God.

You seem pretty mechanically inclined, I am guessing you have moved on to a pump/vacuum filtration set up at this point?

 

[Nilatac]

Brewing 500g of test with a shit quality oil that couldn't been use. I don't change brands I use since then.
Good part is that test is cheap

 

[Deleted member 127229]

You seem pretty mechanically inclined, I am guessing you have moved on to a pump/vacuum filtration set up at this point?

I actually still use sterile whatman syringe filters haha.

Here's why...

I was thinking about buying a buchner funnel. I even found sterile pvdf membranes for it. But then I started to think how much it would be a pain in the ass to wash, then also sterilize. Plus transferring it from the buchner funnel introduces a whole new aspect of things... I need a bottletop dispenser now.. It just seemed like a giant pain in the ass for someone who only homebrews for himself. I've found better ways to syringe filter though...I filter my oil warm, I use 5ml syringes because they have a smaller diameter and plunger and thus push easier. And I use mct which is thin enough I can get a stream with medium pressure at 100ish degrees F. It takes maybe 2 minutes per 10ml vial while taking my sweet time.

 

[Laxbro88]

I actually still use sterile whatman syringe filters haha.

Here's why...

I was thinking about buying a buchner funnel. I even found sterile pvdf membranes for it. But then I started to think how much it would be a pain in the ass to wash, then also sterilize. Plus transferring it from the buchner funnel introduces a whole new aspect of things... I need a bottletop dispenser now.. It just seemed like a giant pain in the ass for someone who only homebrews for himself. I've found better ways to syringe filter though...I filter my oil warm, I use 5ml syringes because they have a smaller diameter and plunger and thus push easier. And I use mct which is thin enough I can get a stream with medium pressure at 100ish degrees F. It takes maybe 2 minutes per 10ml vial while taking my sweet time.

ahh we are in the same boat. I looked into it and it was just another level of complication that I certainly did not need for just brewing for myself.

 

[Deleted member 127229]

ahh we are in the same boat. I looked into it and it was just another level of complication that I certainly did not need for just brewing for myself.

Definitely haha. I really don't mind syringe filtering. It's hard to fuck up if you're filtering into sterile vials. I like that simplicity because I'm very ocd about things as it is lol

 

[Laxbro88]

Definitely haha. I really don't mind syringe filtering. It's hard to fuck up if you're filtering into sterile vials. I like that simplicity because I'm very ocd about things as it is lol

Absolutely, the creating a sterile environment is something you have to be careful about if your not just filtering directly into a sterile vial, not worth it if your just doing personal amounts.

 

[DECLAN]

Sprayed warm oil into my eyes when syringe disconnected from my filter when I pushed harder than needed.

Man, that shit hurts so bad.

 

[klokke23]

My first brew. I had already done 50 ml test e. Now it was time for 50 ml primo e. I was using a big syringe and a caulking gun. When I was finished I sucked up the last few ml's from the beaker with a small syringe and attached a syringe filter to it, ready to filter the last 2-3 ml. But the filter flew right out and I squired unfiltered gear into the rest of the brew. Had to refilter the whole thing, again by hand.

I got myself a vacuum pump setup after that.

 

[crtx]

using castor oil.....

 

[buck]

Making a concentration to high where it wouldn't hold. And had to thin it out.

 

[klokke23]

Making a concentration to high where it wouldn't hold. And had to thin it out.

That's not too bad of that's your biggest mistake

 

[buck]

That's not too bad of that's your biggest mistake

In 20 years of brewing that is the worst i can think of. One of the things that took me a while to learn was to write down all my concentrations and amounts before i started and having them available as a cross reference and don't trust to memory. As a journeyman machinist doing very close tolerance work you learn to go slow and measure at least twice before cutting the metal as you can't put it back.

 

[Disarmer]

Worst one was spilling about 170ml of 200ml Test t Cyp homebrew about a decade ago. I was paying about 5x as much for raws then as I am now and only ordered enough for the brew, so I had to place a new order and wait 6 weeks for delivery.

The real bitch was all the wasted time, such a pain in the ass.

These days the worst mistake I make is knocking over a vial and spilling half of it, often on myself. Also irritating but nothing major