An intersting Brew day

Having plumbed my three keggles I decided to give them a try out before I went ahead and built a frame for them. Here's some pics:

Using a knockout punch

Some plumbing

Manifold:

About to start boil:


(pic shows HLT written on the keggle, but that's actually the wort boiler)

Not noticing a screw missing on new burner.... Priceless...

Resulting in:





(that's over 100 feet of street!!!)



But not all was lost! (actually 14 fracking liters were lost from a 40L/11Gal (50L/13Gal preboil) batch!! But thank God for a good efficiency, when water was added to compensate I still have an IPA, only it will be a 5.5% not 6.5%, and at that point I had yet to add the hops.



Did I mention that the moment I lit my Mash Tun burner Thunder rolled above my head! Though it was sunny everywhere but the over the hills behind my house. Thus this brew shall be aptly named "Thunder Brew".

Dry lightning, we called it in Illinois. Don't know why, as it was really thunder.

Glad you made a good salvage!

Yes, but 14 Liters of wort! Aieeeee! Almost cried watching all that wort run down the street and into the drain. My Czech retired neighbour almost had a heart attack.

That is one flimsy looking burner stand, I don't think I'd trust it with a 5 gallon batch.

That is definitely not man enough to hold a keg full of brew!

Well salvaged though.

Wow that burner looks messed up!
Glad everything turned out okay!

Time to get the welder out!Good job saving bew day been to friggen hot to brew roud here.

Glad your beer was saved..

That would have pissed me off enough to put a pellet in the brain of the little rat dog that craps in my yard

well it was 105 that day. just glad i didn't scald my self. actually, that's why i lost so much wort. trying to pick up a a full keggle while simultaneously trying not to burn your leg on the side of the keg AND avoiding hot spilling wort was, i would guess, an amazing bit of footwrk to have watched.