cooldood

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I agree in fact I put ice IN the fermenter and pour the hot wort over it and there is NO WAY anything else works as fast.

iBrewR

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We pay a flat fee each quarter for water, so it doesn't matter how much we use. On the other hand, it cost electricity to make ice.

NivekD

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Really don't like that idea...my wort is too precious to be pouring it over ice.

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Bottled: Mexican Cerveza, Irish Stout, some Blue Moon clone
Kegged: Blue Moon clone, Irish Red Ale
Primary: Pepper Ale, My first attempt at Mead (JAOM)
Secondary: Russian Imperial Stout
On Deck: Not sure yet, any suggestions?
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eric19312

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How do you know if the ice is sanitary?
I don't think you can. I love my homemade immersion chiller. Throw it into the pot during the boil and I know it is sanitized when my wort gets cool enough to let bugs live.

half_whit

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Or spray down with starsan! Yeah I'm crazy excited to use mine. I used the ice pour-over method for my first couple brews and they turned out fine. I think generally I was lucky though. Like eric90210 pointed out, pretty risky in terms of infections. I was actually filling my icecream maker jar with ice and dunking that for a while. All of these were huge pains in the rear and my sink isn't really big enough for the ice bath method. But hey, more than one way to skin an eskimo, right?

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Secondary 1:
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Conditioning: "Summer SMaSH" faux-pils
Consuming: Slut-Gaarden, Nutella Stout, "Hey, Blinkin!" ESB?

highgravitybacon

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By the time you futz with buying the pieces, a pipe bender (since most people don't have one) and factor in time and gas @ $3.49/gallon, paying $50 to have one made and brought to the house isn't a bad deal at all.

NivekD

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But it's the "I built it myself" factor that makes things like this fun.

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Bottled: Mexican Cerveza, Irish Stout, some Blue Moon clone
Kegged: Blue Moon clone, Irish Red Ale
Primary: Pepper Ale, My first attempt at Mead (JAOM)
Secondary: Russian Imperial Stout
On Deck: Not sure yet, any suggestions?
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Polboy

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I made mine CFC when still doing extract, it was nice DIY practice before converting coolers to MT, putting burners and stands togather then cutting kegs , i think i learn a lot by making my brewing equipment

cooldood

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Not sure about AG guys but I know a lot of extract brewers use "make up" water to get the water to the correct amount. I use that same water to make ice cubes and have never had a batch go bad


(knock on wood)

eric19312

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if you are curious about whether this ice cube practice is actually contaminating your beer you could do a wort stability test. To do that take a sample of your ready to pitch wort and put it in a sterilized jar. Put on a lid loosely and put the jar in a warm place. If it will go 48 hours at 80F without anything growing in it you are fine, 3 days even better.