MistFM
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So I bottled my first 5 gallon batch today (honey brown ale) and brewed my second kit ever (summer ale), and boy did I learn a lot! I thought I'd post this so any other new people can read and learn from this so they don't make the same mistakes I did.
I don't have a wort cooler, so I was thinking that I could just put my wort in the sink with a cold water/ice bath to cool it off. Little did I know that my wort was going to be ~ 200 F and would melt all the ice that my fridge makes in 10 minutes. After 2 hours of waiting for my wort to chill to < 90 F I decided to get some ice from the store. If you are going to brew and don't have a wort chiller, be sure to have a ton of extra ice so that you can cool your wort down.
I am definitely going to buy/make a wort chiller before I brew again, because that was such a pain in the ass and I hope that having it exposed and continually dipping my spoon to stir and thermometer to measure temperature didn't infect my batch.
Any other methods out there to cool your wort without taking all day?
I don't have a wort cooler, so I was thinking that I could just put my wort in the sink with a cold water/ice bath to cool it off. Little did I know that my wort was going to be ~ 200 F and would melt all the ice that my fridge makes in 10 minutes. After 2 hours of waiting for my wort to chill to < 90 F I decided to get some ice from the store. If you are going to brew and don't have a wort chiller, be sure to have a ton of extra ice so that you can cool your wort down.
I am definitely going to buy/make a wort chiller before I brew again, because that was such a pain in the ass and I hope that having it exposed and continually dipping my spoon to stir and thermometer to measure temperature didn't infect my batch.
Any other methods out there to cool your wort without taking all day?