snow is a great wort chiller - Page 2

**Doed** · 01-24-2012, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by geer537

But like I said- You're going to need to experiment with wasting a little water first anyways. If not you will be dumping 210 degree water on ice and that will heat your ice bath up quick. Then you are scrambling to put a lot more ice hot water. Your efforts are then spent keeping that ice bath cooled instead of cooling your wort.

I gotcha. I could run regular garden hose water through and catch the heated water in my clean up wash tub until the water starts to run through cool, then connect the pump to run ice water through the chiller and recirculate the ice water.

**geer537** · 01-24-2012, 02:55 PM

It's a solid plan! If you come up with something better to save water, let us know. I have been racking my brain and am always looking for better, faster ways to chill.

I also still whirlpool while the wort is chilling using the recirculation to help speed it up.

BOBTHEukBREWER · 01-24-2012, 03:14 PM

Uk brewers usually only cool down to 30 deg C before pitching the yeast. Put your cooling coil in a sink of cold water and run the wort through the coil, twice is usually enough.