Barnstormer
Well-Known Member
So I took the afternoon off work to come home and make some beer. Things were going fantastic. I hit an all time high efficiency too, 84% pre-boil!
The boil and hop additions went perfectly and then it was time to chill the beer.
I put in my homemade immersion chiller and turned on the cold water. After just a short while i noticed the kettle looked a little more full than when I brought it in, it must have been because of the displacement from the chiller right? Wrong. The copper split and dumped about 2 gallons of water into my beer and it looks like I lost a little of the wort in the discharge water too.
I guess I am going to boil it back down and hope for the best. It is a kolsh and since I hit higher that expected numbers, it might actually work out and still be in style. The hop additions might be off though. I had them at 60min, 30min, and 20 min. I think I will just add a few pellets at flame out and see what happens.
Anyway, thanks for listening to my rant.
Cheers!
The boil and hop additions went perfectly and then it was time to chill the beer.
I put in my homemade immersion chiller and turned on the cold water. After just a short while i noticed the kettle looked a little more full than when I brought it in, it must have been because of the displacement from the chiller right? Wrong. The copper split and dumped about 2 gallons of water into my beer and it looks like I lost a little of the wort in the discharge water too.
I guess I am going to boil it back down and hope for the best. It is a kolsh and since I hit higher that expected numbers, it might actually work out and still be in style. The hop additions might be off though. I had them at 60min, 30min, and 20 min. I think I will just add a few pellets at flame out and see what happens.
Anyway, thanks for listening to my rant.
Cheers!
