Don't do what I did.

[The_Dtrain]

So I was brewing a 10 gallon batch on Sunday. My neighbor came over to help me lift my keggle up so that I could chill the wort in my gravity fed CFC. After putting on leather gloves we both grabbed the handles of the keggle and then proceeded to put our hands UNDER that hot keggle. My neighbor let go quickly but I didn't. I thought the leather was going to be burned into to the skin of my fingers. The glove wasn't burned to my skin but I have some pretty nasty burns/blisters.

Am seriously considering a single tier setup and March pump so I don't need to worry burning my hands again.

 

[weirdboy]

Ouch!

I don't mind lifting (by the handles!) my brewpot for 5-gallon or smaller batches, but anything bigger and I wouldn't do anything that involves moving big pots of hot liquid mid-brew.

Hope your fingers get better soon!

 

[FiddleTilDeath]

As a fiddle player that hurts to look at. Ugh!adskjfasdf;

 

[brrman]

you, sir, need a frikkin March pump! OUCH!

 

[babalu87]

Pump or a taller burner

 

[snevey]

By any chance were those pics taken from the doctors office/emergency room/urgent care facility? :rockin:

 

[CA-LT1]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I just saw the picts, then cringed as I read the text. SS isn't all that great of a thermal conductor, so the bottom of the skirt will get up to about 1500 deg F.

 

[Revvy]

I have silicon gloves that I use, and I did something similar, luckily I felt the heat but no burn.....at least on my hand that is...I stupidly tried to brace the underside with my calf and did get a bit of a burn through my jeans.

But I didn't dump any wort though.

 

[Rob_T]

Ugh ouch! Looks painful. I hope the brew turns out atleast.

 

[The_Dtrain]

By any chance were those pics taken from the doctors office/emergency room/urgent care facility? :rockin:

Yes, my wife convinced my that I should have my doctor look at it, so I took a picture just in case he wanted to lance the blisters.


If this batch doesn't turn out then I will be very disappointed.

I think I'll rename my brewery to Blistered Fingers Ales!

 

[Bobby_M]

Not that it helps you now, but you can really take some of that heat off the bottom skirt by dipping a towel in water and running around the skirt a few times. It helps with cooling the wort too. You could also just spray it down with the hose.

 

[The_Dtrain]

Just bit the bullet and bought a March pump. (Does a brewer ever stop upgrading?)

 

[jwatkins56550]

Just bit the bullet and bought a March pump. (Does a brewer ever stop upgrading?)

No...it is one expensive, yet fun, hobby....

I love it!!