Bad News for Flying Dog Brewery...
 

Caught this elsewhere on the web, and though you guys might dig on the destruction.

Seems someone at Flying Dog Brewery wasn't paying attention during a cleaning cycle on Sunday and closed the system...

These things are built to withstand large amounts of pressure pushing out... but not really prepared to withstand pressure sucking in.

And so, it appears a 300bbl tank (that means it holds 9300 gallons) gets borked...

Physics in Action.

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That's an expensive mistake.

Wow, someones just joined the unemployment line....:Oh crap

A real life Homer Simpson.

Hey my beer cans always do that when they're empty too.

holy shit, i saw that happen to a tun ten times smaller than that at the brewery i worked for in sunnyvale and it made the most god awful explosion sound as it caved in.

powerful shit suction is.

oooooo thats not good

can't they do the 2 liter bottle thing we did as kids.. and blow it back up?

Assuming it's a standard fermenter, the thing has two layers of insulation wrapped inside a double food-safe stainless-steel wall with glycol jacketing in-between.

I'm sure they'll be able to salvage some of it as scrap, but, as a whole, its fermenting days are probably done.

That's a fantastic fuckup...