71: You Dropped a Bomb on Me....Baby....You Dropped a Cask Bomb On Me......

So Monday, some guys from a brewery that will remain nameless, but it rhymes with Un-Eden, dropped off their entry for the Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting which Wayne is going to drive up along with our entry, Hunahpus Imperial Stout. We had been referring to Hunahpus as Mayan Chocolate Imperial Stout, but I decided to finally give it a more personal name and in Mayan myth Hunahpus gives cocoa to the Mayan people so I thought that worked well.

Anyway, as I was saying we had two casks sitting in my office waiting to go up to Atlanta and early Tuesday morning I get a call from my buddy Todd and he asks me if I knew that a keg exploded in my office. Well I did not and my heart sank because I assumed it was our cask and we flat had no back up for this cask entry. I frantically called Wayne to see if he knew what was going on and the first thing out of his mouth after I mentioned the keg was, "It wasn't ours!"  I was so relieved I didn't care what the mess might look like when I got there. But, the mess was actually quite impressive as it turned out.

It seems the keystone blew which expelled  the muslin bag with all the hops in it with enough force to coat a lighting fixture that is nearly 10 feet off the ground. It even splattered into the next cubicle. Fortunately the cask was upright so very little actual beer spilled out, or the mess would have truly been bad, with 10 gallons of stout on the floor. Wayne snapped a few pics and then Travis, from that unmentioned brewery, came over helped us clean up and bought us lunch. Travis is a class act and we have nothing but love for him and the rest of the ummm Un-Eden crew

Check out the aftermath of the casksplosion:









It may look innocent, but when under pressure this cask is very dangerous!

We'll have another update tomorrow with a bunch of pics of the boiler room install and the exhaust stacks which were put up today. And also the auger run which wwas completed on monday.

Cheers,
Joey Redner












                                

Posted by Cigar City Brewing at 1/14/2009 5:25 PM
Categories: uncategorized
 

What did you think of this article?




Trackbacks
Trackback specific URL for this post
  • No trackbacks exist for this post.
Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Leave a comment

Submitted comments are subject to moderation before being displayed.

 Enter the above security code (required)

 Name (required)

 Email (will not be published) (required)

Your comment is 0 characters limited to 3000 characters.