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This is my first real batch of beer and I'm planning on boiling 3 gallons with the extract and hops and then mixing that with 2 gallons of normal water. I'm reading a bunch of stuff about rapidly cooling the wort by immersing it in ice which as I understand will get the wort to 75 degrees in about 30 minutes, but everyone fails to mention what temperate those extra 2 gallons should be at. Should I mix the cooled wort with cold tap water or room temperature or what? I don't want to cool it down too much, what do I do?