Today was the friggin worst. I went for a simple hefeweizen, and here is a list of everything that went wrong.
Used rice hulls. The rice hulls clogged my herms coil. I had to dump the water and rice, filter through a t-shirt, and reheat my water
Finally got to mash in. Because I didn't have any more rice hulls, it clogged, couldn't recirculate fast enough to keep the temp stable.
Finish mashing. Transfer to brew kettle, start boil.
10 minutes later. I'm still at 150 degrees. After 20 minutes of searching found out a wire had come undone from the heating element. Turned everything off, rewired, back in business....
After that I accidently plugged my now empty HLT into the boil. The element popped.
Get done with the boil. I decided to built a wort chiller that day (this is the one were I really only have myself to call dumb-@$$) obviously I did not finish it with everything else so I decided to put it in the ferm-freezer. As I was transferring to the carboy, my carboys bottom blew out (I'm done with glass).
All of this to say, today sucked, my house is a mess, and SWMBO is pissed
Used rice hulls. The rice hulls clogged my herms coil. I had to dump the water and rice, filter through a t-shirt, and reheat my water
Finally got to mash in. Because I didn't have any more rice hulls, it clogged, couldn't recirculate fast enough to keep the temp stable.
Finish mashing. Transfer to brew kettle, start boil.
10 minutes later. I'm still at 150 degrees. After 20 minutes of searching found out a wire had come undone from the heating element. Turned everything off, rewired, back in business....
After that I accidently plugged my now empty HLT into the boil. The element popped.
Get done with the boil. I decided to built a wort chiller that day (this is the one were I really only have myself to call dumb-@$$) obviously I did not finish it with everything else so I decided to put it in the ferm-freezer. As I was transferring to the carboy, my carboys bottom blew out (I'm done with glass).
All of this to say, today sucked, my house is a mess, and SWMBO is pissed