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If you're in Florida and on city water your tap water temp is going to be relatively warm. Typically it's pumped out of the ground, chlorinated and stored in a big arsed ground storage tank. It doesn't take long for it to get warm.

Since I started ice has always been a requirement. If you don't want to buy a small fountain pump, pre-chilling will help. However if you don't have another IC on hand, I would buy a $50 pump and use that to run the ice water straight through the chiller.

I've got one of those twice the ice trailers around the corner. 40 lbs of Ice for $2.00. Enough to chill 10 gallons. Worth it to me.

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SwampassJ

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It's insane how long it took for 5 gallons to cool, I wanted to start doing 10 gallons soon.

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I usually brew once a week and my ice maker makes enough ice over the course of a week to just use that. But I too have to use a prechiller for the tap water and then pump ice water at the end.

When the wort is really hot you don't really need the water to be ice cold, the cooler the wort gets the cooler you need the chiller water to be. So I just put a frozen water bottle in the prechiller bath at first and then sort of progessively chill it more as I go.

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CodeRage

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That may be true for an IC but not for a CFC.

If using an IC, you're right, if you're patient you could forgo the ice water in the beginning.

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Brutus 20e build | Electrical Primer for Brewers | Auber SYL-2362A2 PID Install & Config
So as I am walking out the door this morning I think to my self:
"self, going to work on Monday is like knowing you're going to get kicked in the nuts. You just don't know when or by who"