GodsStepBrother
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So i am on my second batch, and me and my brother made a wort chiller. We ran a test on some boiling water in our kettle and we got it to cool down in about 20 minutes. Then we noticed that the tap water at our house comes out at 85 degrees! I live in a hot part of Texas. Non the less we made another wort chiller which we stuck in another kettle and filled with water and froze overnight. So the 85 degree water goes through the frozen wort chiller first then into the actual wort chiller at 69 degrees. So we thought we would chill this wort in no time. But when brew day came around(two days ago), it actually took longer to chill the wort. It took about 24 minutes, even with the frozen wort chiller making the water colder.
I know the test we did was just water, and wort has a lot of sugar and etc... could this be responsible for the difference in times? Also when we did the test that cooled it in 20 minutes, we didn't have this other frozen wort chiller going, so how can it be that it took longer to cool down the wort with a 69 degree water going through the wort chiller, than 85 degree water going through it? I think i will also add that the plan water that we chilled boiled at 204 degrees and the wort was boiling at 207, could it also be these 3 degrees in difference?
i don't know we are at a lost here, any ideas?
I know the test we did was just water, and wort has a lot of sugar and etc... could this be responsible for the difference in times? Also when we did the test that cooled it in 20 minutes, we didn't have this other frozen wort chiller going, so how can it be that it took longer to cool down the wort with a 69 degree water going through the wort chiller, than 85 degree water going through it? I think i will also add that the plan water that we chilled boiled at 204 degrees and the wort was boiling at 207, could it also be these 3 degrees in difference?
i don't know we are at a lost here, any ideas?