What’s a dry run called when it’s all about moving lots of wet stuff around? “Wet run” sounds messy.

Which is apt, now that I think about it a little bit, because I made one hell of a mess the first time I tried to go through all the steps of moving water from one pot to the other in my newly-equipped basement brewery. Two of the pots, it turned out, were in very bad locations, and I also found out very quickly that the clip-on hose connections I thought were so nifty and easy to use will dump one hell of a lot of water on the floor if I’m not paying attention.

I was paying attention, most of the time, just not to the right things. Like, I know how to start a siphon, but I forgot that a siphon will start itself if you give it a chance. I gave it all kinds of chances. More water on the floor.

After mopping up the mess from the first dry run … wet run, whatever … I shuffled the pots around and tried again. I got almost no water on the floor the second time around. Yay, me.

Time to make some beer.