I knew my latest IPA was dangerous but damn........

[Fairlane]

Well it had to happen I guess... the first time in 23 years that I have dropped a full bottle of beer in my garage.

 

Apart from being devastated at the loss of what is (in my opinion) an absolutely lovely, strong (and probably slightly over carbonated) beer, I then had to deal with what it did to my leg after it failed said impact test on the concrete.....

[JoKing]

Fuck,

[James P]

If you were an tattoo type of person.....

 

[denimglen]

Fuck yes.  Best.  Idea.  EVER!

 

But it has to be a choice homemade tattoo with Bic ballpoint ink and an old compass.

[Fairlane]

yeah and you clean it up when it's done with a wire brush and some dettol...  :)

[Mark Jackman]

just soak up the beer with a rag and wrap it around the wound.  Not the best way to enjoy the beer but at least it wont go to waste..

[Fairlane]

that is fkn great.....  it wouldn't go with my other tattoos though....

[Reebs]

Reminds me of a similar homebrew related injury a mate sustained a couple months ago.

He knocked over a bottle which proceeded to explode, showering the assembled bbq crowd with glass and beer, and putting a sizeable shard of glass into his little toe. Blood everywhere, but most distressing for the brewer was the lost brew! A fellow attendee at the bbq, who is a vet, who offered to stitch up the wound but he didn’t take her up on the offer funnily enough Seems to have healed up ok.

It was also an IPA so I wonder if there is some of hop rebellion going on,exacted on unsuspecting home brewers for trying to squeeze all those hops into the brew.

[Tom C]

I shattered a carboy once, rinsing it with too hot water.  Tidied all the broken glass into a box then slipped on the wet floor and landed in it hand first.  Microsurgery, plenty of stitches and 20 years later I still have a nasty ‘suicide’-looking scar and limited sensation in two fingers and a thumb. 

At least no beer was spilt, but it took me a few years to try brewing again!

[Reviled]

"At least no beer was spilt"

 

I read all of your post in absolute horror until I came up to this and had to laugh haha. Sorry to hear about your hand tho mate :o(