Chiller leaked in to wort!

dwturnernc · Nov 3, 2013

Ok. Just finished my brew day and was chilling the wort. Turned my back for 5 mins or so and to my surprise. My 11 gallons of wort became 13. My chiller developed a hole. Ugh! Suggestion. I'm thinking bout boiling off the water. It's American wheat with ibu of 35. Thoughts?

Brew-Jay · Nov 3, 2013

dwturnernc said:
Ok. Just finished my brew day and was chilling the wort. Turned my back for 5 mins or so and to my surprise. My 11 gallons of wort became 13. My chiller developed a hole. Ugh! Suggestion. I'm thinking bout boiling off the water. It's American wheat with ibu of 35. Thoughts?

Probably not a bad idea. I've had water leak into my cooling wort and it ended up being no big deal. But it's better to be safe right? How will you cool the newly boiled wort though?

dwturnernc · Nov 3, 2013

I have patched up the chiller and will give It another shot.

BigFloyd · Nov 6, 2013

dwturnernc said:
I have patched up the chiller and will give It another shot.

I'd want to subject that chiller to a thorough leak-test (preferably under some pressure) before using it again.

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