Fat Bastard
Brew Cvlt Doom
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Goddamn stuck mash.
The pump drained under the bag and I've now got a burned element and boy oh boy is the mash stuck. I'm currently draining the bag via the mash tun, and it looks like it's going to take an hour or more to drain to the holding tank so I can inspect the element. If it doesn't taste too bad and the element is ok, I might stick the ss mesh screen over the bag rest to create a false bottom (done this before and it works, but adds more cleaning), dump the contents of the bag in and proceed with the brew as usual. If not, I can kiss goodbye to 8 kilos of Perle malt.
I was only stepping from 55 to 66 when this happened and caught it pretty quick, so I'm hoping I can save it.
I think I'll have a beer while the bag drains. Arrrgh!
The pump drained under the bag and I've now got a burned element and boy oh boy is the mash stuck. I'm currently draining the bag via the mash tun, and it looks like it's going to take an hour or more to drain to the holding tank so I can inspect the element. If it doesn't taste too bad and the element is ok, I might stick the ss mesh screen over the bag rest to create a false bottom (done this before and it works, but adds more cleaning), dump the contents of the bag in and proceed with the brew as usual. If not, I can kiss goodbye to 8 kilos of Perle malt.
I was only stepping from 55 to 66 when this happened and caught it pretty quick, so I'm hoping I can save it.
I think I'll have a beer while the bag drains. Arrrgh!