Ahhhhh Jesus! Power cut!

[beanstalk]

Ten minutes left in the boil and a town wide powercut! Shite! I'm using a grain father and have the fermenter ready. Don't have a wort chiller. Any suggestions folks?!?!?!

[Simon_]

So you can't pump it through the CF chiller. You're going to just need to wait it out and see if the power comes back. If it's outside you could just let it chill for a few hours and then siphon it into a fermenter.

[oblivious]

Throw in your later hop addition and call it a day 

[beanstalk]

Thanks everyone!

Yeah my chiller was useless. Id actually just added some whirlfloc when the cut happened, hopefully not boiling it after wont be too detrimental.

What I did was break my hand siphon trying to pour it all into a fermenter, then I jugged out the rest (well oxygenated by then). Then I took the fermenter outside and ran a hose on the outside of it to cool it down.

Then the airtrcity guy came in a lorry, and we had a great laugh, cus I had hopefully just avoided a disaster, and he was trying to hide cus everyone was stopping him giving out about the power cut but he had nothing to do with it, he was just changing street lights.

So we wished each other all the best, and when I got into the house, 15 minutes after the power cut, the power came back on.  I may have aged a year or so in the process but its in the fermentation fridge now so fingers crossed!

[DEMPSEY]

T'will be your best beer this year

[Leann ull]

Cue Smithwicks camera crew

It will be grand

[Bubbles]

T'will be your best beer this year

Absolutely! Those disastrous brew days always produce the best beers!

[Leann ull]

trying to replicate it is the problem!

Do you need power to chill it, I thought they were counterflow?
so having CF lower would have cooled it into FV?

[beanstalk]

trying to replicate it is the problem!

Do you need power to chill it, I thought they were counterflow?
so having CF lower would have cooled it into FV?

You're right, and i'd thought of that, but it was too dangerous to try and lift the grainfather to counter height with 24 litres of boiling wort. No handholds and too hot. Plus you'd need to disconnect the pump pipe...

Hopefully it will be a good one! It's a smoked porter (beechwood) and now my house smells like a campfire. Some craic. Need to sit down, I don't usually do this, but I'm rewarding myself with a cold Paulaner Muncher Helles. Phew!

[Simon_]

Cue Smithwicks camera crew

It will be grand

[Qs]

Cue Smithwicks camera crew

HAha

[Simon_]

so having CF lower would have cooled it into FV?

You need to pump it from the bottom of the GF up and out the recirculating pipe. You do see modifications where people put valves at the bottom

[Leann ull]

ah so no drain on the bottom?, bugger

[mr_pinball]

The same thing happened to me in October, I was making a stout and the electricity shorted about 30mins into the boil. Just had to wait and then bring it back to the boil and finish as normal. Stout turned out lovely.

At least you have a good name.... Power cut porter!

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[Simon_]

Same thing happened to me a few months back when it started raining heavy during a brew with the GF outside causing all the power to go in my house.
I'm auditioning for my own Smithwichs ad