CanAusBrewer
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Hi guys,
I was brewing an american amber last night and drinking probably a bit too much homebrew simultaneously and decided it would be a good idea to cool my kettle in my swamp chiller bucket which was halfway full of cooling water. To my horror, as I had my back turned the entire kettle containing 10 l of boiled wort tipped over into the cooling water. I freaked out a bit and decided to re-boil my wort or at least bring it up to 70-80 deg C before adding it to the sterilised fermentor and cooling the entire volume in a bath of fresh water and ice. In the end I lost about 5 l of wort to dilution and added in a further 20% of the required extract in the original recipe to get it up to 1.040 (Beersmith was calling for 1.045 OG). I pitched what by that point was a very healthy looking yeast stater and crossed my fingers. I am pretty sure that it is a lost cause at this point but how long will it take to know if I totally ruined my batch of beer?
In the future I will not chill with a floating kettle!!! haha
I was brewing an american amber last night and drinking probably a bit too much homebrew simultaneously and decided it would be a good idea to cool my kettle in my swamp chiller bucket which was halfway full of cooling water. To my horror, as I had my back turned the entire kettle containing 10 l of boiled wort tipped over into the cooling water. I freaked out a bit and decided to re-boil my wort or at least bring it up to 70-80 deg C before adding it to the sterilised fermentor and cooling the entire volume in a bath of fresh water and ice. In the end I lost about 5 l of wort to dilution and added in a further 20% of the required extract in the original recipe to get it up to 1.040 (Beersmith was calling for 1.045 OG). I pitched what by that point was a very healthy looking yeast stater and crossed my fingers. I am pretty sure that it is a lost cause at this point but how long will it take to know if I totally ruined my batch of beer?
In the future I will not chill with a floating kettle!!! haha