sentfromspain
Well-Known Member
So I have been brewing for over a year now, and every time I brew I use a copper immersion chiller to bring down the wort temperature after a boil.
The thing is, while I save as much water as I can for clean up later, and use the rest of the water for my yard, I have to admit that cooling the wort this way requires a LOT of water. I know there are ways to recycle the water even further, but right now I can't do much else.
So I pose the question: if I take a stainless steel wort chiller, hook it up to my kettle's spigot, and immerse the chiller in a tub filled with ice and some salt, and forcing the hot wort to go through the tubing, would the process be more effective?
The stainless steal would not oxidate, and if I had enough tubing I am sure that the beer would come out at a reasonable temperature without having to resort to using so much water. Also, this way the wort volume wouldn't be as much an issue. You could have 5 gallons, 10 gallons, 15 gallons, etc., and the chilling time would be more or less the same.
What do y'all think? Or does anybody know a better, low cost, and higher efficiency method?
The thing is, while I save as much water as I can for clean up later, and use the rest of the water for my yard, I have to admit that cooling the wort this way requires a LOT of water. I know there are ways to recycle the water even further, but right now I can't do much else.
So I pose the question: if I take a stainless steel wort chiller, hook it up to my kettle's spigot, and immerse the chiller in a tub filled with ice and some salt, and forcing the hot wort to go through the tubing, would the process be more effective?
The stainless steal would not oxidate, and if I had enough tubing I am sure that the beer would come out at a reasonable temperature without having to resort to using so much water. Also, this way the wort volume wouldn't be as much an issue. You could have 5 gallons, 10 gallons, 15 gallons, etc., and the chilling time would be more or less the same.
What do y'all think? Or does anybody know a better, low cost, and higher efficiency method?