AG#56 Northdown Experiment #2 (Watery Fowls)

[haz66]

This is very similar to my Flowery Tw@s but i`m changing the aroma hop from fuggle to EKG,
and putting 200g less Wheat in.

3500g MO Pale
200g Wheat
200g Crystal
35g Norhdown @ 60mins AA 7.9%
10g EKG @ 10mins AA 5.8%
15g EKG @ 0mins AA 5.8%
1 Protafloc Tab
11g Safale S0-4

Target is 23ltrs @ OG1039
BU:GU Ratio 0.87 IBU`s 32

The mash went on at 09.30 and the sparge water is heating up ready for about 11.00

So time for a quick brew and a smoke before the sparge i think

[haz66]

Dissaster strikes

It was 5 mins into the boil and then it just stopped, so i quickly emptied the boiler,fit a new element,refilled boiler, but still nothing,
i only have the one kettle lead, so tried connecting a PC lead just to see if it would fire it up, but alas no.
I`m still fairly hungover from last night so dont fancy jumping in the car to source either another element or lead, so it will have to
sit in the boiler until later, when the wife gets home from work i`ll get her to run me on to Tesco`s or Morrisons.

Will the wort be ok or will the hops that are already in just turn it too bitter, theres 35g of Northdown AA 7.9% sat in there,just stewing away.

[WishboneBrewery]

Should be good... shame about the disaster!!

I'll crack into that last bottle of yours tonight I think, Hop Stock and 2 Firkin barrels

[196osh]

Just make sure its not hot wort so it wont be extracting any a.a. and it wont be bitter.

[haz66]

Should be good... shame about the disaster!!

I'll crack into that last bottle of yours tonight I think, Hop Stock and 2 Firkin barrels

I`ll drink the bugger anyway

Just make sure its not hot wort so it wont be extracting any a.a. and it wont be bitter.

Yeah its cooling down as we speak

[haz66]

Well after getting a new lead the new element still wouldn`t fire up, so decided to try the old one i took out, WTF
it started working, so emptied boiler again,put the old element back in and fired her up, its working fine and just coming
to the end of the boil, about 6 hrs later than planned.

If this beer turns out ok the problem will be replicating it

I think i may have thrown something away that was connected to 2 spade connectors on the new element ,will look
into that later.

[haz66]

I went and bought another Tesco budget kettle and realised my mistake,i needed to bridge the two spade connectors that
had the switch on them, soi cobbled something together and tested both elements, and they now work fine

[WishboneBrewery]

oops!!