boomtown25
Well-Known Member
I live in an apt. and when chilling, I run a hose from my kitchen sink to the balcony, where I have one copper chiller in an ice cooler with ice and water and it leads to another copper chiller submerged in the hot wort with a hose to dump the hot water from the chillers into my bathtub inside (I am on the second floor). Every time I brew I spend about $5-10 on ice alone and would love to knock this down or out. I have bounced around the idea of "altering" my chiller which goes in the cooler to fit into a one gallon bucket (I am assuming I can simply coil it smaller and tighter) and then put it in the gallon bucket and fill with water and freeze this. Essentially creating a frozen chiller for the tap water to run through before entering the chiller in the hot wort. No money spent as it is a block of ice which I froze instead of buying bags of ice which just melt in my cooler. Thoughts? Anyone tried this or something close???