Poindexter
Well-Known Member
How fast do i have to go?
today I knocked out a mid weight brit ale since I got off work early. Second voyage of my new wort chiller.
At the end of boil I dumped a quart of refrigerated RO water into the kettle to stop the boil and lock down my hops. Then I whisked in my ME, covered and steeped for ten minutes.
Then I poured in an entire gallon of RO (2.5 gal boil) and started my wort chiller.
The end temp on my ME steep was 180, so good there. I wiped my chiller down with isopropyl with 15 minutes left in the boil, so that should be OK.
Between the reefer RO and the chiller my wort was under 140° 12 minutes after the end of boil and down to 89°F at 20 minutes after end of boil.
I whirled it up real good and waited five minutes, but really all the trub and hot break and pellet hops and cold break is in my fermenter.
How long do I really need to wait on the whirlpool ?
I am maybe obsessing, but that window from end of boil to sealed, pitched fermenter gives me the heebie-jeebies.
TIA4Y2c,
P
today I knocked out a mid weight brit ale since I got off work early. Second voyage of my new wort chiller.
At the end of boil I dumped a quart of refrigerated RO water into the kettle to stop the boil and lock down my hops. Then I whisked in my ME, covered and steeped for ten minutes.
Then I poured in an entire gallon of RO (2.5 gal boil) and started my wort chiller.
The end temp on my ME steep was 180, so good there. I wiped my chiller down with isopropyl with 15 minutes left in the boil, so that should be OK.
Between the reefer RO and the chiller my wort was under 140° 12 minutes after the end of boil and down to 89°F at 20 minutes after end of boil.
I whirled it up real good and waited five minutes, but really all the trub and hot break and pellet hops and cold break is in my fermenter.
How long do I really need to wait on the whirlpool ?
I am maybe obsessing, but that window from end of boil to sealed, pitched fermenter gives me the heebie-jeebies.
TIA4Y2c,
P