nolabrew85
Well-Known Member
I know there have been a lot of threads on wort chilling, but I have not seen this idea yet. I am in south Louisiana, so for many months out of the year, the water from the tap is pretty warm, so that an immersion chiller may not work well. Also, ice baths are a bit of a pain and take a while to cool a full boil. SO, I thought of buying a cheap submersible pond pump from home depot ($20 to $60) and placing it in a large bucket of ice water chilled to about 40 degrees (most pumps can deal temps between 40 and 80 F) and then pumping this water to the immersion chiller and having the other hose from the chiller back into the bucket and basically just keep recycling the water in the bucket until the wort is cool. Thoughts? Anyone tried this? Seems like it will work to me and would be easier than some contraptions I have seen that were meant to remedy the same problem.