CalmYourself
Well-Known Member
...but it had nothing to do with the no-chill.
Finished up a good, solid 90 minute boil and AS i started whirlpooling I knocked the inside of the ball-valve tap on my plastic boiler promptly knocking the tap out of the boiler causing the wort to begin spewing everywhere.
I had already sanitized my cube prior (I know some people say you don't have to but I had the time to spare and can't see the harm) so I quickly poured the entire batch of wort into the cube. No time to let the whirlpool settle so the cube was filled with the hops, trub, absolutely EVERYTHING that was in the boiler
As if that wasn't bad enough, after about 30 minutes I discovered that the cube was leaking too
I then had to pour the entire cube into the only other free vessel I had (sanitized too at least) which was a bucket used for bottling and sometimes fermenting. The pouring most definitely resulted in a huge amount of aeration in my very very hot wort
*sigh*
Oh well. It's still gonna be beer, perhaps just not the best. Might end up being the beer I drink after 4 or 5 better beers
Cliffs:
Finished up a good, solid 90 minute boil and AS i started whirlpooling I knocked the inside of the ball-valve tap on my plastic boiler promptly knocking the tap out of the boiler causing the wort to begin spewing everywhere.
I had already sanitized my cube prior (I know some people say you don't have to but I had the time to spare and can't see the harm) so I quickly poured the entire batch of wort into the cube. No time to let the whirlpool settle so the cube was filled with the hops, trub, absolutely EVERYTHING that was in the boiler
As if that wasn't bad enough, after about 30 minutes I discovered that the cube was leaking too
I then had to pour the entire cube into the only other free vessel I had (sanitized too at least) which was a bucket used for bottling and sometimes fermenting. The pouring most definitely resulted in a huge amount of aeration in my very very hot wort
*sigh*
Oh well. It's still gonna be beer, perhaps just not the best. Might end up being the beer I drink after 4 or 5 better beers
Cliffs:
- Boiler started leaking during whilpool
- Had to transfer contents including trub to cube
- Cube started leaking
- Had to transfer cube contents into fermentor with mass aeration of hot wort
- Still optomistic about the results