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Don't leave these guys outside even if you think you've purged all the water. Last couple of brews have had that "homebrew twang" to them and I couldn't figure out why. Last night I noticed the kettle was about 4 gallons down, but my 15 gallon fermenter was overflowing. Looks like the brazing expanded during a freeze last winter and I was leaking hose water in with the beer. Last night I had a kink in the outflow of the water side and had too much back pressure, sending cool, fresh, chlorinated water into my fermeneter along with the wort. I thought something was fishy when the wort was chilling so quickly.

Luckily, I still had 7 gallons left in the kettle, so I was able to save some of the batch.

Oh man, I am sorry to hear about that. At least some of the batch was salvaged. I still use my immersion chiller as it best suits my brewing setup as of right now. I have yet to graduate to a big boy plate chiller yet...

At least you caught the problem!

Funny, my last beer has something funky going on with, very dry with a twang it and I can almost guarantee it's the same thing. I Had the same problem last year too. Then like an idiot I bought a second one I always purge the water, but it doesn't take too much to push coper out to place. Time for me to start thinking about a counter flow.


The more that I "upgrade" my setup the more I want to downgrade it

NervousDad wrote:
The more that I "upgrade" my setup the more I want to downgrade it

There is something said for simplicity in design.