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Has anyone else done this? Burco boliers have very light aliumium lids, so after switch off I put a round beach pebble of about 2kg on top to stop the wind blowing lids off.
Brewday was postponed due to yesterday's bad weather. Brew no.1 went fine 25litres of OLd Speckled Hen. Brew no.2 25litres of Styrian Pale was going alright until I transferred the IC into the burco, put the lid on and the pebble and SPLOSH, in it went.
No way I could fish it out. As it wasn't too filthy I decided to put the Burco back on till boiling to hopefully kill off any bugs on the pebble.
100g of Styrians went in to steep at 80C at 58 mins ago, so will have to nip out to put IC on.

I still plan to finish the brew and drink it, but if 4 weeks from now I stop posting you'll know why

Im sure it will survive

Maybe dont age it for too long though

My Burco has a stainless lid

Nice one Daab. At least I can laugh now, but it wasn't funny at the time Never mind.

Bet that brew will turn out to be rocking.

When you are drinking it, put your ear to a half empty glass, you'll probably hear the sea

Guess which pebble is the shiniest in the garden

Probably added some useful minerals, especially sodium.

I bet you'll get stoned on that brew

I dropped a big rubber cork into one of my first brews. It turned out fine, but the cork still smells like wort.

I think I recall someones cat jumping through an open kitchen window straight into a fermentor

Was that how the recipe for Robinson's "Old Tom" came about