A sad day.

[yeastinfection]

today ive admitted defeat ,, ive binned 40 bottles of a hobble whobble i did ,was my first brew with the peco boiler, something went wrong, hops or sugars stuck to the element and burned, ive waited a couple of months hoping the taste would improve, it has not. its like when you burn peas in a pan, its that bitty,burned, muddy taste you get,
gutted, its a lot of beer to bin, and i still dont know why it happened.:-(
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[nigelnorris]

Coincidence, I've just done exactly the same thing and poured a batch of bitter down the sink. It tasted ok on the way down but by the end of the glass it had a horrible overly bitter aftertaste. I've been slowly drinking a bottle here and there for 6 months now hoping it might clear itself up and I finally gave up today.

Tbh it's a weight off knowing that I'll never have to touch the stuff again. I've filled a glass with a different beer so let's raise a toast to the next brew!

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi!
Saw this and thought of you :lol:
It's actually an old photo of officers from the Cats Protection League disposing of several barrels of Boddingtons.

 

[Leon103]

Oh that element looks black. Strange that hops would settle on it when it's boiling because the boil should knock them off.

 

[Callumbo]

What a shame bud. This is a real shame but from what I've read it's happening to the best of us. Maybe use a cage for the element on the next brew and see if it improves. Worth testing by chucking a load of water and sugar in and let it boil for an hour and check the results

 

[Cwrw666]

That's odd, I always get a burned on layer on the bottom of my Ace boiler during a brew but have never noticed any affect on the taste. Though it isn't an exposed element like yours.

 

[IainM]

Commiserations. I've had three brews now where the element ended up black like that, though I don't think the brews suffered because of it.

 

[neal]

I've had an element like that with a brew, I blamed it on the Candi Sugar ! been fine since .
sorry for your loss :-(

 

[H0PM0NSTER]

:-(
A sad day indeed. I've only had to tip one brew away (a plum Wherry where the addition of fresh plums caused a horrendous wild yeast infection) but I can imagine how much worse it feels after expending the time to bottle it.

Could you take apart a stainless steel sieve and use the mesh to create a guard around the heating element?

 

[yeastinfection]

I now have a false bottom for it. But if it was sugars then it would still happen. If like to understand why it happened.

 

[strange-steve]

I've only ever had one dumper and it was for the exact same reason, burnt element and the beer tasted like cigarette ash :sick:
I never determined the exact cause, but I asked on another forum at the time, and some others had experienced the same thing. Pretty much everyone who had experienced it was while brewing a wheat beer (as I was). I know yours wasn't a wheat, but did you notice if the malt had a lot of flour in it? Also was it a BIAB?

 

[yeastinfection]

Yes it was Biab...

 

[strange-steve]

One possibility is that some of the fine grain solids/flour etc is getting through the bag, falling onto the element and being burnt onto it. I noticed when I used to do BIAB there was a lot more "bits" in the boiler, especially when using the malt at the bottom of a sack, or when using a lot of wheat.