WillPall
Well-Known Member
After reading about it and seeing other people do it, I decided to speed up my wort cooling process by freezing a couple of gallons of sterile water and then pouring my hot wort over the ice. The problem is, apparently two gallons is plenty to cool down hot wort because even after adding all the wort and top-off water I still have two gallons of ice floating in my fermenter and my thermometer is reading the wort at 40F.
Obviously, I am going to wait to pitch my yeast until the wort has come back into the 70F range, but is super-cooling my wort going to hurt anything?
Obviously, I am going to wait to pitch my yeast until the wort has come back into the 70F range, but is super-cooling my wort going to hurt anything?