OK I know it's Friday the 13th.
A few weeks ago my Grainfather boiler started to trip out. Long story short, it had developed a pin hole somewhere & water was leaking from tank to the electronics below.
Today I was brewing a pale ale. Mash went OK sparge went ok, set to 100 - went up to 92, then started to fall.....tripped out,....reset ok for a few minutes tripped out. thought may be the thermometer on blink so pulled it out but still tripped out after a few minutes. Bypassed the control box, same result.
Pumped 15 litres into boiler, currently boiling with hops, will add protofloc 15 minutes before end. Intending to transfer that to fermenter, pump remaining in grainfather to the boiler, bring to boil and add protofloc - not intending to boil for full hour - no need other than to reduce volume to reduce gravity. transfer fermenter contents & boiler contents back to grainfather so I can add cooling coil (it's too big for boiler) cool &transfer to fermenter - what a ******** performance.
Grainfather & original boiler bought July 2018 so a couple of months short of four years old & today was the 158th Brew. Is it too much to expect things to last longer than this?
Now pondering whether to go a different brewing route. May ditch the recycle idea all together.
A few weeks ago my Grainfather boiler started to trip out. Long story short, it had developed a pin hole somewhere & water was leaking from tank to the electronics below.
Today I was brewing a pale ale. Mash went OK sparge went ok, set to 100 - went up to 92, then started to fall.....tripped out,....reset ok for a few minutes tripped out. thought may be the thermometer on blink so pulled it out but still tripped out after a few minutes. Bypassed the control box, same result.
Pumped 15 litres into boiler, currently boiling with hops, will add protofloc 15 minutes before end. Intending to transfer that to fermenter, pump remaining in grainfather to the boiler, bring to boil and add protofloc - not intending to boil for full hour - no need other than to reduce volume to reduce gravity. transfer fermenter contents & boiler contents back to grainfather so I can add cooling coil (it's too big for boiler) cool &transfer to fermenter - what a ******** performance.
Grainfather & original boiler bought July 2018 so a couple of months short of four years old & today was the 158th Brew. Is it too much to expect things to last longer than this?
Now pondering whether to go a different brewing route. May ditch the recycle idea all together.