OK, so I should have known better, but I left to go to a get together tonight, after having had a wonderful brew session with no problems at all. I made a dunkleweizen, and everything just clicked into place. I put a cap on the carboy, and running down the main stem was a piece of copper tubing, through that runs an airline going from a filtered aquarium pump to a carbonation stone. I usually let that run for an hour or so, but figured "hey, i will only be gone a few hours, no big deal". I did think to put a 5/16th tube coming off the other side of the carboy cap and running into my iodophore bucket.
When I left, there was an awesome amount of cold break in the bottom of the carboy, since I use a counterflow chiller. I used a tea ball for the hops, so there was no real hop mess in the carboy from the transfer, and everything looked good. There was some nice clean foam on top of the carboy from the pump. I got home to wort all over the floor. Some nasty sticky brown goo had formed, risen to the top, clogged up the "blow off" tubing, and forced the copper tube to become the pressure relief. I figure I lost about half a gallon.
The question is, what was that nasty brown goo? It is stick as all get out, and highly water resistant, leading me to think that it might be an oil emulsification, that being the case, it would pretty much have to be the hop oils. Did I destroy my beer by stripping out all of the hop oils?
Has anyone else ever exprienced this?
When I left, there was an awesome amount of cold break in the bottom of the carboy, since I use a counterflow chiller. I used a tea ball for the hops, so there was no real hop mess in the carboy from the transfer, and everything looked good. There was some nice clean foam on top of the carboy from the pump. I got home to wort all over the floor. Some nasty sticky brown goo had formed, risen to the top, clogged up the "blow off" tubing, and forced the copper tube to become the pressure relief. I figure I lost about half a gallon.
The question is, what was that nasty brown goo? It is stick as all get out, and highly water resistant, leading me to think that it might be an oil emulsification, that being the case, it would pretty much have to be the hop oils. Did I destroy my beer by stripping out all of the hop oils?
Has anyone else ever exprienced this?