Nylon Beer

Well my Nylon Bag evidently sat at the bottom of my 7.5 gallon pot briefly while doing a partial mash. This led to 3lbs of grain everywhere in my wort and a hole in my bag. I filtered out the grain using colanders and another bag into a second pot. I reboiled to sanitize and threw my wort chiller in. While attempting to scrape off the burnt 'plastic' from my good pot, I noticed my homemade wort chiller is spraying a stream of water into the pot where the tube meets the copper
Hopefully this turns out ok - I'll know in about 6 weeks. Anyone else run into this?

MRD

 

Bummer man. I had a similar incident with my wort chiller when cooling my Hefe, which is listed below in my Sig as "Band Aid Hefe". The name comes from the flavor that it had when I sampled at bottling. From what I can gather, the water that leaked from my hose into the wort contaminated it with enough chlorine to give it an off flavor. Hopefully your tap water is better than my Los Angeles tap. I am holding out hope that it settles out in the bottles. On my next batch, I used some foil and a cloth where the hose meets the copper tubing. The cloth captured the few drops that were leaking and corralled it down the outside of my kettle.

 

I had this happen to me while chilling my last batch.

I was chatting with my wife when she looked down and casully said, "umm, is that supposed to be doing that?" I looked down and my chiller was squiting water into the wort. DOH.

I was worried a bit, but the beer came out just fine.

and by the way - I was using a pond pump with ice water. Even though I cleaned the sink, there was stuff floating around in the sink. I guessing it was from the ice and inside the chiller & pump.

E

 

On the second batch I ever brewed the hose blew off of the cheapo wort chiller I had bought at my LHBS. I had just started chilling so I threw my pot back on the stove and brought it back to a boil for a few. My concern wasn't really the water, but that the hose water had washed something nasty into my pot...I bet your beer will be fine.

 

When my wife was steeping the grain for her summer ale,I put a cake cooling rack in the bottom of my 5G BK. End of that worry. Just measure the diameter of the inside bottom of your bk,then find a cake cooling rack to fit as close as possible. Works great.