yewtah-brewha
Well-Known Member
One of my local brew shops suggests boiling the wort chiller for the last 15 minutes of the boil, has anyone ever heard about this? I am assuming to kill infections and reduce the possibility of contamination
Heck... I've shoved mine in as late as just before flame out and never had a bad batch of beer. As long as the wort is still at the boil when you toss it in, you should be good.
I also dip my hop stariner in the boiling wort for about 10 seconds as well...
Gary
At boiling temps, anything over a few seconds is long enough to sanitize. A couple of minutes will get it as close to sterilized as you can get without a pressure cooker. Do a google hunt if you don't believe me.
You said: I also dip my hop stariner in the boiling wort for about 10 seconds as well... what do you mean? is this to clean it?
That means my stir stick(plastic spatula) is now sanitised. I'm using it to move the wort around as the chiller cools the wort.
"L" copper tubing and "M" copper tubing are both the same copper, one is just thicker walled than the other.I made a wort chiler from 3/8 copper tubing picked up at my local lowes store. Is there such thing as improper grade of tubing. they make 2 different strengths and i was wondering if one was better for food? getting ready to dunk it after this post. Wish me luck!
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