So, I was having an awesome brew day (a nice oatmeal stout for around St. Paddys). The sun was shining, and I had just hit my pre-boil OG on the nose :rockin:. Go out to the garage, fire up the burner, and have a very uneventful hour long boil. Stuck the wort chiller in with about 10 minutes to go. Timer goes off and I cut the burner and turn on the hose. I watch the brew kettle thermometer start dropping as the chiller does its thing. It seems to be going a little faster than usual, but it's fairly chilly outside and the water coming out is colder than usual, so I think nothing of it at the time. Keeping an eye on the thermometer while stirring the wort, I get the temp down to ~80 and am about to pull out the chiller when I notice that my volume seems to have changed. I pull out the chiller and its leaking water everywhere . I had checked for leaks before I stuck the thing in the kettle, so the only thing I can think of is the tubing caught too much steam and loosened up. Oh well, not the end of the world. I'll just measure the gravity and boil it down a little to hit my target OG right?? Wrong. I measure the gravity which is about 1.044 corrected. So I go inside to rinse off the hydrometer and thermometer and the hydrometer slips out of my hand. I catch it, but the momentum snaps it at the base of the neck :smack:. So now I can't take a gravity reading. I'm more than a little irritated to say the least but I finished bringing the wort back to a boil. I tightened the hose clamps on the wort chiller and made sure to pay more attention this time while it was chilling and had no issues. So who knows what my OG is. It's higher than 1.044. Sample tasted not terrible so I'm not terribly pessimistic about the outcome. Just felt like venting.....stupid wort chiller