Boiler Disaster - Ideas anyone?

[JayM72]

After boiling water without any problem last night in preparation for todays brew, my Brupaks/Severin boiler has decided to pack up, it got the wort up to 80 deg but no higher. The only back up I have in place in an Electrim boiler which I normally use as an HLT but, consequently, has no hop strainer. I'm boiling the wort in the Electrim bucket as we speak but I'm not sure what I'm gonna do once the boil has finished and I need to drain the wort off. I assume the tap will just clog?

The other idea is to boil in the electrim and then transfer back to the Brupaks boiler just for straining purposes. Not particularly worried about hot wort aeration as ythat;s the least of my problems!

Cheers
Jason

[Capped]

Jay,I've had catastrophic boiler failure just when it matters! I've done exactly as you suggest in your last sentence. Lots of hassle but no lasting ill-effects on the beer. Don't even contemplate running off straight thru' the tap - as you fear it most assuredly will clog completely in very short order!

[blackadder]

Or cool (assume your using a coil) in the boiler , leave it a half hour to settle and jug out the wort with a sterilised container, sterilised inside and out and not touching the liquor with fingers. Have turned to gas after similar failures!

[dave-o]

I had this problem when my hop stopper got detatched from the tap during the boil.

Sterilise a jug and seive and jug it out through the seive.

[JayM72]

Well in the end I went for plan A and used the electrim boiler to do the boil (not great at maintaining a consistent roling boil )and then transferred over to the broken boiler, let the hops settle a bit and then carried on as normal. All in all a pretty crap brew day but hopefully will result in something vaguely drinkable.

Cheers
Jason

[techtone]

Too late now, but for my AG#1, I forgot the hop strainer but it still flowed out fine through the tap. In fact I have seen instructions for the boiler that do not even mention the requirement for the hop strainer. I guess there are several factors at play though so maybe I was lucky. I did sieve what came through the tap but there was very little that was caught.

[Eric]

I don't know, never been in that dilemma and always understood you needed a good boil for good beer. Hope you'll inform us of your findings.