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It went pretty good, no issues besides it taking awhile to get the wort cooled down. The wind was blowing pretty good here and I was out in the garage so stuff was flying around and I didn't want anything to get in the wort. I was getting nervous so I said screw it and shut my immersion chiller...

Sweet, thanks for the info, 4 minutes left to chill down time. :)

I'm currently in the process of brewing an Octoberfest. I've been out of brewing for a few years. My floating thermometer broke in my last brew with a pumpkin beer two years ago and it kinda ripped my soul out of my body and took the passion away from brewing for me. I put a ton of work into...

It won't get better, if anything any slight hint will disappear with time. The good thing is now you know what to do next year and to bump up your spices. Don't do a drastic bump cause you could overpower the spices, especially the cloves if you do that. I used vanilla, pumpkin pie spice...

Well I was going to pitch it, but then my wife stepped in with the t-shirt idea and I thought that is this beers only chance at this point. Then I read about the bb's being steel and no issues there and the manufacturer stating there was nothing toxic in the thermometer and thought if we can...

So I looked at the thermometer more closely and the thermometer portion itself didn't break at all, just the casing with the steel shot in it. We filtered the wort several times, racked it from the brew kettle to primary, filtered from primary back to clean brew kettle through fine screened...

Just so we're clear, this is a food grade thermometer that came with the brew kit I orginally received as a present. Those thermometers don't contain mercury and from what I understand thermometers haven't had mercury in them for a long time.

I forgot to add we racked it off the trub and left that in there and that's where we found the glass.

So what we're doing is we found all of the steel bb's so there is no issue there. We found three large pieces of glass, but of course we are missing a few. We took a clean t-shirt, cut it up to act as a filter for us, sanitized it with Starsan and we're filtering the beer through that. I think...

**** I know that's the right answer too and I spent a lot of time on this beer. Just when you think you've figured this hobby out you get thrown a curve ball! :mad:

It's a True Brew Floating Thermometer, from what I'm reading it has steel bb's not lead ones correct? I agree about the glass though..........

I'm putting this here hopefully to get more views. I just finished brewing my Pumpkin Ale and while cooling it down my floating thermometer broke in my wort because it hit my wort chiller. The end of it broke off and all of those black bb's in the bottom are now in my wort. Is the wort lost? I'm...

Brewing Midwest's pumpkin extract ale as I type this. I baked 3 29 oz cans of Libby's pumpkin puree for 30 minutes at 350 and bumped up the spices that I did last year as my bumps from last year weren't enough to give me what I was looking for. I'm planning on adding an additional can with 5...

Gotta try making this stuff.............sounds awesome!

This definately sounds like something I want to try..........awesome thread!

Good to see another Iowan on board, I'm in the Des Moines Metro Area.

The city is definitely getting better and the brewing is growing in this area. Downtown has really grown as a place for younger people to hang out. I give them credit for changing the face of Des Moines, but it's not quite there yet.

Welcome to the board, I live in the Des Moines Metro Area right now in Norwalk. I've been to the Portland/Beaverton area and I thought it was a cool place. Definately more traffic than Des Moines, but it was still a cool experience from a brewers standpoint and all the micro breweries up there.

Thanks for the info EZ, I guess I never thought of doing that. I tried to make it that way today for a bunch of stuff, but my schedule didn't work out to allow it. I'm gonna try to get there tomorrow or Thursday.

Very nice build, I enjoyed following this thread!