I have been brewing extracts for about and year and just switched over to all grain. What is the target time for chilling a 6.5 gallon batch of wort using an immersion chiller? Any tricks for speeding up the process? Thanks in advance for the help.
I have been brewing extracts for about and year and just switched over to all grain. What is the target time for chilling a 6.5 gallon batch of wort using an immersion chiller? Any tricks for speeding up the process? Thanks in advance for the help.
I place the entire pot (covered) into another, larger pot filled with iced water, and start circulating water (not very cold in my case, about 65 deg) through chiller.
I think you're not making the best use of your ice... Use the tap water alone at first. The big Delta T between hot wort and tap water should fine to knock several 10s of degrees off the wort temp.
THEN use the ice once the wort has cooled some. You'll keep a larger Delta T and possibly cool those last few degrees faster.
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