HopHeadWeb
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I just brewed my first batch today after being out of the hobby for about 3 years. Finally have a big enough place to brew!
So today I brewed a Brewer's Best German Oktoberfest Kit (Partial Mash). My brewpot is only a 4 gallon so I had about 2.5 gallons of hot wart I needed to cool down. I thought that just dumping in the rest of my cold water along with the wort into the fermenter would do the trick, but it did not.
I figured that this was not a fool-proof plan so I already had the bath tub filled with cold water. After letting the wort sit in the tub for about 15 minutes I didn't notice much of a change so I sanitized 2 large ziplock bags and loaded them full of ice and dropped them in the fermenter.
This didn't cool the wort lightning fast or anything but was a noticable improvement. I am hoping that I didn't take too much of a chance contaminating the wort with the ziplocks but I will let you all know in a month or two when I taste it.
Might be worth a try if you don't have a wort cooler. Definately not a replacement but it gets the poor man by!
So today I brewed a Brewer's Best German Oktoberfest Kit (Partial Mash). My brewpot is only a 4 gallon so I had about 2.5 gallons of hot wart I needed to cool down. I thought that just dumping in the rest of my cold water along with the wort into the fermenter would do the trick, but it did not.
I figured that this was not a fool-proof plan so I already had the bath tub filled with cold water. After letting the wort sit in the tub for about 15 minutes I didn't notice much of a change so I sanitized 2 large ziplock bags and loaded them full of ice and dropped them in the fermenter.
This didn't cool the wort lightning fast or anything but was a noticable improvement. I am hoping that I didn't take too much of a chance contaminating the wort with the ziplocks but I will let you all know in a month or two when I taste it.
Might be worth a try if you don't have a wort cooler. Definately not a replacement but it gets the poor man by!