The King of Spain
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Put down a brew today, 2nd in 3 days trying to build up depleted stock (zero actually).
I put my copper coil in the boiler to chill and discovered to my horror that the boiler must not have been central over the burner. The whole thing tipped towards me spilling 1 or 2 litres of hot wort. I was able to jerk the whole thing upright using the coil and only got a little on myself. It would not have taken much to have had the whole lot down my chest and legs, not to mention in-between.
Now I get absolutely sick of the safety "religion" at work because of the hypocrisy that comes with it, but I do think this is worth somthing of a safety moment.
I will be making some adjustments to my set-up so this does not happen again.
So I open myself up for all the wisecracks but maybe someone else can learn from this.
Cheers
KOS
PS - Still got 21 litres of ESB into the fermenter. Hit all my target gravities and temps so looking forward to a good non-commercial beer in the near future
I put my copper coil in the boiler to chill and discovered to my horror that the boiler must not have been central over the burner. The whole thing tipped towards me spilling 1 or 2 litres of hot wort. I was able to jerk the whole thing upright using the coil and only got a little on myself. It would not have taken much to have had the whole lot down my chest and legs, not to mention in-between.
Now I get absolutely sick of the safety "religion" at work because of the hypocrisy that comes with it, but I do think this is worth somthing of a safety moment.
I will be making some adjustments to my set-up so this does not happen again.
So I open myself up for all the wisecracks but maybe someone else can learn from this.
Cheers
KOS
PS - Still got 21 litres of ESB into the fermenter. Hit all my target gravities and temps so looking forward to a good non-commercial beer in the near future