HBT causes boil overs!

kh54s10 · Jul 10, 2014

It must be true. Whenever I am brewing and looking at HBT the likelihood of boil overs seems to increase exponentially. I rarely get a boil over when I am not on HBT! :drunk:

estricklin · Jul 12, 2014

It may or may not be responsible for a hop colored stain on my carport.........or 3!

kh54s10 · Sep 11, 2014

This was a while ago, but I would have thought the "problem" would have been more prevalent..

Yooper · Sep 11, 2014

kh54s10 said:
This was a while ago, but I would have thought the "problem" would have been more prevalent..

It doesn't cause boilovers!!!!!!

What it seems to cause is spillover in the MLT.

I don't know why, but if I dare get engrossed on HBT, the pump on my HLT works fine while the pump going from my MLT to the BK sloooooooows down so much that my HLT overflows.

It's like that second pump watches me, and keeps the same level and the same amount of wort moving until I stop looking at it.

kh54s10 · Sep 11, 2014

Yooper said:
It doesn't cause boilovers!!!!!!

What it seems to cause is spillover in the MLT.

I don't know why, but if I dare get engrossed on HBT, the pump on my HLT works fine while the pump going from my MLT to the BK sloooooooows down so much that my HLT overflows.

It's like that second pump watches me, and keeps the same level and the same amount of wort moving until I stop looking at it.

Well, since I am using an all gravity system, that will not happen to me.. But I will take a temperature of the BK and it will be ~190.

kh54s10 · Sep 11, 2014

Yooper said:
It doesn't cause boilovers!!!!!!

What it seems to cause is spillover in the MLT.

I don't know why, but if I dare get engrossed on HBT, the pump on my HLT works fine while the pump going from my MLT to the BK sloooooooows down so much that my HLT overflows.

It's like that second pump watches me, and keeps the same level and the same amount of wort moving until I stop looking at it.

Well, since I am using an all gravity system, that will not happen to me.. But I will take a temperature of the BK and it will be ~190. I decide I have enough time to read another post on HBT..... The next thing I hear is a waterfall!!!!!!!!