Brew day disasters

[Kilgore Trout]

Its been 10 days and I'm only just coming to terms with what happened. The short story is the brand new induction hob went bang, not a piddly wee bang, a proper nearly **** myself bang. The long story is pretty much that with a lot of padding. I won't bore you.

The really gutting part was this was a brew for my old man who is retiring soon and I wanted to make a clone of his favourite brew (Williams Brothers 7 Giraffes). The hob went bang as I was heating water for the sparge. I ended up trying to hop it anyway, heated with a couple of camping stoves outside in the shed. It only made 83 C, so no protein break. It tasted decent at the end of the "boil" and looks fine in the fermenter, I will bottle on Thursday and hope the whole thing is not wasted.

2 questions. What's the reckoning on it being drinkable? Any other disasters hit you on brew day?

P.S. 3rd question, anyone brew on induction?

 

[Snakes]

I tried my first brew on an induction the other day. It went well, but I was doing a very scaled down brew, so only had about three litres boiling away and everything went fine.

I am planning on scaling up soon, so would be interested if there have been many issues encountered on brewing on induction.