So I finally had a brew day disaster.
I brewed up an American pale yesterday. I had disassembled my 10 gallon Blichmann after my last brew day to give it a deep cleaning. It seems that I didn't fully tighten the ball valve While I was connecting a hose to drain my chilled wort, the entire ball valve spun 360 degrees. ARGH!
I jammed my hand against the ball valve and tried to hold it while the pot drained. After about 10 second (and 2 cups of wort), I picked up the entire pot and dumped it into the fermentor. Luckily, I was using a bucket instead of a carboy.
I set down the pot only to realize that the hose had dragged across the floor and was now sitting in my fermentor bucket. ARGH!!!
Outstanding issues:
1. Possibly infected batch.
2. Dirty brew pot (I walked away after I got the bucket in my ferm fridge)
3. Ripped ball valve O ring
4. No hydrometer reading.
Summary:
I still got beer fermenting which may turn out and didn't break anything expensive. At least I didn't end up with 5 gallons of wort on the floor.
I brewed up an American pale yesterday. I had disassembled my 10 gallon Blichmann after my last brew day to give it a deep cleaning. It seems that I didn't fully tighten the ball valve While I was connecting a hose to drain my chilled wort, the entire ball valve spun 360 degrees. ARGH!
I jammed my hand against the ball valve and tried to hold it while the pot drained. After about 10 second (and 2 cups of wort), I picked up the entire pot and dumped it into the fermentor. Luckily, I was using a bucket instead of a carboy.
I set down the pot only to realize that the hose had dragged across the floor and was now sitting in my fermentor bucket. ARGH!!!
Outstanding issues:
1. Possibly infected batch.
2. Dirty brew pot (I walked away after I got the bucket in my ferm fridge)
3. Ripped ball valve O ring
4. No hydrometer reading.
Summary:
I still got beer fermenting which may turn out and didn't break anything expensive. At least I didn't end up with 5 gallons of wort on the floor.
