Had a bit of a shocker with this one and no idea how it's gonna turn out.
After the mash I put the wort in the boiler and found it was taking forever to come to the boil - turned out one of the elements had gone. So eventually had it boiling for about 45minutes, and then the remaining element broke too. So, I put the boiler on the hob and tried to bring it back to the boil but it just wouldn't get there - sat at about 95C and no higher. So I whacked in the second load of hops and let it simmer for about 15 minutes before allowing it to cool off.
Then, I found the immersion heater I use with the ATC800 controller has also smashed, so everything really got a bit naffed up.
Cooled it and pitched - landed with about 28L at 1051 (quite high efficiency for me but not reduced down as much as planned so had to run a bit into a half-demijohn) - though I have no idea if the boil was long enough, if it will have enough bitterness, and if it doesn't get infected it'll be a minor miracle as my sanitisation was a little lacking in amongst all the faffing around.
So all in all, a right screw-up.
Hopes aren't high!
Need to get a couple of new kettle from Tesco too now - and they were out of stock yesterday evening! Grrr!!!!
