jay075j
Well-Known Member
Hey All,
So last night I started to brew a Dunkelweizen, and all was going well as normal during the mash.
I was finishing up warming up my sparge water in my boil kettle and I noticed that the sight tube on my kettle was actually starting to warp due to the heat. This is where I made the mistake of touching it to try to straighten it out and then the stupid thing came off in my hand! Now I had about 10 gal of 170 degree water flowing out of the bottom of my kettle with no way to stop it.
And of course this was on New Years Eve and not even Home Depot was open for me to go get a plug to cover the fitting and continue my brew. That will be done today.
My question is, can I still use the same mash from last night? I did nothing with the mash, or grist, or wort. It is all still in the cooler / MLT that I brought into the house to at least keep it at room temp.
Should I just start all over again with buying new grain, or can I capture my wort and just sparge now?
Thanks for the help!
Jay
So last night I started to brew a Dunkelweizen, and all was going well as normal during the mash.
I was finishing up warming up my sparge water in my boil kettle and I noticed that the sight tube on my kettle was actually starting to warp due to the heat. This is where I made the mistake of touching it to try to straighten it out and then the stupid thing came off in my hand! Now I had about 10 gal of 170 degree water flowing out of the bottom of my kettle with no way to stop it.
And of course this was on New Years Eve and not even Home Depot was open for me to go get a plug to cover the fitting and continue my brew. That will be done today.
My question is, can I still use the same mash from last night? I did nothing with the mash, or grist, or wort. It is all still in the cooler / MLT that I brought into the house to at least keep it at room temp.
Should I just start all over again with buying new grain, or can I capture my wort and just sparge now?
Thanks for the help!
Jay