tnbrewer371
Well-Known Member
so here is what I have been doing lately with all of my brews, i brew extract only at this point
i put 3 gallons in my brewpot and do a boil using that water for an hour, meanwhile i cool 3 gallons of store bought spring water in my freezer during the boil. after the boil is over i immediately add 2 of the gallons of freezer spring water to the brewpot and put it in ice batchs for 30 mins, i than pour the last gallon of freezer cooled water into my primary bucket and pour whats in my brewpot into my primary bucket and end up with a bit over 5 gallons of wort ~5.3 gallons usually. is there anything wrong with cooling my wort down quickly this way?? any advice or comments would be greatly appreciated, i have had nothing but great succes with this technique so far and allows me not to have to mess around with buying/building and using a wort chiller. thanks guys, have a homebrew on me.
i put 3 gallons in my brewpot and do a boil using that water for an hour, meanwhile i cool 3 gallons of store bought spring water in my freezer during the boil. after the boil is over i immediately add 2 of the gallons of freezer spring water to the brewpot and put it in ice batchs for 30 mins, i than pour the last gallon of freezer cooled water into my primary bucket and pour whats in my brewpot into my primary bucket and end up with a bit over 5 gallons of wort ~5.3 gallons usually. is there anything wrong with cooling my wort down quickly this way?? any advice or comments would be greatly appreciated, i have had nothing but great succes with this technique so far and allows me not to have to mess around with buying/building and using a wort chiller. thanks guys, have a homebrew on me.