I'm getting ready to brew a batch of beer using malt extracts (my 2nd brewing attempt) and had a question about chilling the wort after boiling.
In Papazian's "The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing", I found a way of cooling wort that doesn't seem to require a wort chiller and I wanted to make sure I understood it correctly. The way I get what he is saying is that you just fill the primary fermenter with like 3 gallons of chilled water and just boil the extract, hops, etc. in a more concentrated 1.5-2gallon brewpot and then pour them into the cold solution to rapidly cool the hot wort to rapidly bring it to a temp that's okay to pitch yeast. I understand that maybe it won't go -all- the way down to 70-75F, but I'm assuming this is a shortcut to putting all 5 gallons in a brew pot, then trying to cool everything from boiling to pitching temp without having to either have a wort cooler or try to move to an ice-filled sink and then pour what I am imagining is a rather unwieldy 5 gallons of liquid into the primary fermenter all at once.
Am I understanding this correctly? Is this a good way to chill the wort?
Thanks!
In Papazian's "The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing", I found a way of cooling wort that doesn't seem to require a wort chiller and I wanted to make sure I understood it correctly. The way I get what he is saying is that you just fill the primary fermenter with like 3 gallons of chilled water and just boil the extract, hops, etc. in a more concentrated 1.5-2gallon brewpot and then pour them into the cold solution to rapidly cool the hot wort to rapidly bring it to a temp that's okay to pitch yeast. I understand that maybe it won't go -all- the way down to 70-75F, but I'm assuming this is a shortcut to putting all 5 gallons in a brew pot, then trying to cool everything from boiling to pitching temp without having to either have a wort cooler or try to move to an ice-filled sink and then pour what I am imagining is a rather unwieldy 5 gallons of liquid into the primary fermenter all at once.
Am I understanding this correctly? Is this a good way to chill the wort?
Thanks!