beer, beer, everywhere

i racked the latest batch of homebrew to secondary, making a mess in the process, and stuffing a hop bag down the neck of my carboy, which i am certain i will not see whole again (the hop bag, that is, not the carboy).

that finished, i decided to transfer the 2 half cornys of 5th Commandment Belgian Stout into my lagering fridge (heh). i took a CO2 tube and connected it to the CO2 tank, then to the keg. the line immediately filled with beer. oh crumb, i realized i had not pressurized the line. hooray for clear tubes, though, that's what I bought them for.

so i removed the tube from the CO2 tank and received my second free physics lesson of the evening! there wasn't just beer in the line, there was pressurized beer in the line, but not for long once one end of the line was exposed to atmosphere! and then the atmosphere was exposed to beer! and the beer was exposed to gravity. and then I and my furniture were exposed to beer.

lots of exposure. i forgot to open my mouth during all of this and thus have still not tasted the beer.

after a cursory, lackluster wipedown, followed by a whole bunch of sanitizer spritzing, i redid the lines, keeping in mind the laws of pressurized gasses, and stacked the two kegs in the fridge. only i didn't quite do this, since i can't stack them both in there if either of them is connected to CO2. so i removed the CO2 line from the keg, and then from the fridge itself since it's a pain to have all those kegs *and* a CO2 tank in there.

then i had to find space in the other fridge for the bottles that had been in the lagering fridge. man, i'm bushed.