Light updated and a safety warning

[BrewTa2]

Those pics and the story are great! Glad nothing worse happened.

[BeerRun13]

213 degrees?!?! You lost me at still drinkable.

Honestly though, I love how you had some back up yeast precisely for this occasion.

Seriously glad nothing worse happened.

[Weenie Boy]

Hella Screwed!!!

Glad you are ok.

Weenie Boy

[Charlie]

Woah! That sucks.

I used a dinky ceramic heater in mine. It's set for low power and 70F, but will raise the temp of the sealed fridge pretty quick. Not that I run the FC that high, but should the controller fail closed the ceramic heater will cycle at 70 and, hopefully, not melt the fridge!

Charlie

[yellowthere]

That is crazy. I noticed that the carboy outline can be seen in the melted back of the frigerator.

You almost boiled your beer again and it's drinkable???

That is the ultimate anti-macro beer. Some beer may be triple hopped, but yours is double boiled. Some is ice brewed, but yours is fire brewed. Take that BMC.

[Cold_Spring_Brew]

Daaaaaaaaammmmn!!! good thing it didn't catch fire.

[Brewgyver]

Salvaged the beer? Hate to say it, but if the beer got anywhere near the 213 F that the controller showed, it's no longer beer - ethanol boils at about 173. So, if the beer got to that point for any substantial amount of time...

You might just have a homebrewed NA!

[jwatkins56550]

I can't believe you didn't dump that batch...hahahah that is hardcore! Where was your probe in that fridge? Was 213F the temp of the beer or just the ambient of the fridge? I would not drink that beer, it is probably not safe.