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Couldn't find the old "you know you did it wrong when..." thread so I'm starting a new one.
While I was brewing yesterday I decided to fill in the dead time cleaning bottles and dumping beer that had passed its stale date. I had just taken a couple of outdated bombers off the shelf and was walking away when I heard the most horrible crash! The shelf I had taken the beers from had collapsed into the next shelf down, several bottles were shattered on the floor, glass everywhere. And my beer wasn't finished!
Fortunately the shop vac sucked up most of the beer and the smaller bits of shattered glass. Everything cleaned up, I could see that the shelf brackets had failed (the little plastic ones stuck into the holes of factory-made furniture). I'll replace them with metallic ones and reshelf the beers that survived. The beer I was brewing, a Helles, is in the fridge, the mess mostly cleaned up and all is well.
Just have to fix the shelves.
While I was brewing yesterday I decided to fill in the dead time cleaning bottles and dumping beer that had passed its stale date. I had just taken a couple of outdated bombers off the shelf and was walking away when I heard the most horrible crash! The shelf I had taken the beers from had collapsed into the next shelf down, several bottles were shattered on the floor, glass everywhere. And my beer wasn't finished!
Fortunately the shop vac sucked up most of the beer and the smaller bits of shattered glass. Everything cleaned up, I could see that the shelf brackets had failed (the little plastic ones stuck into the holes of factory-made furniture). I'll replace them with metallic ones and reshelf the beers that survived. The beer I was brewing, a Helles, is in the fridge, the mess mostly cleaned up and all is well.
Just have to fix the shelves.