With the price of copper being as it is I've been trying to find a cheap alternative to building a copper wort chiller.
I've thaught of using frozen sanitised bottles but apparently they can give a plastic taste to your beer when hot wort hits the frozen plastic bottles.
I've been thinking I'll have to with an ice bath but that sounds like a hassle.
So, my next thaught is: Could i buy 5 - 10 meters of siphon tubing, dump it in my kitchen sink filled with cold water and siphon my wort from the brew kettle to fermenter through this.
Even if I need to finish off the cooling in a water bath as long as i get below 140f I'll be out of the DMS danger zone.
Does anybody know if this would work?
would there be any draw backs like plasticy taste ect?
I've thaught of using frozen sanitised bottles but apparently they can give a plastic taste to your beer when hot wort hits the frozen plastic bottles.
I've been thinking I'll have to with an ice bath but that sounds like a hassle.
So, my next thaught is: Could i buy 5 - 10 meters of siphon tubing, dump it in my kitchen sink filled with cold water and siphon my wort from the brew kettle to fermenter through this.
Even if I need to finish off the cooling in a water bath as long as i get below 140f I'll be out of the DMS danger zone.
Does anybody know if this would work?
would there be any draw backs like plasticy taste ect?