Mr. Mojo Rising
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I have been toying with this idea as an alternative to freezing multiple bottles of water for my chiller ice compartment. Anyone ever try this?
Mr. Mojo Rising said:I have been toying with this idea as an alternative to freezing multiple bottles of water for my chiller ice compartment. Anyone ever try this?
True dat. In my late teens, I had a job in the beverage industry where there was always dry ice around. As a typical teenager, naturally I had to mess around and toss it into a wide variety of liquids. As the bubbles furiously rose and burst, they always left a greasy gray film on the surface. Not something I find appealing in a fine homebrew.Buford said:I've heard that dry ice isn't really all that clean and can have machine oil residues and whatnot on it since it isn't really meant to directly touch anything for human consumption. I'd be wary of tossing it into my pristine wort.
Without adequate ventilation, you could be creating an invisible layer of CO2 at floor level that may not be healthy for your pets or small children.
To resurrect this thought of chilling wort with dry ice: I understand the issue with the industrial contaminants in the dry ice, but what if one was to have a container or long-ish plastic bag sanitized on the outside that one sticks the dry ice in and submerges in the wort. That would segregate the dry ice from the wort. No contamination, just a lot of cold all at once. My concern is will the sudden introduction of extreme cold screw up the flavor somehow?
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