boswell
Well-Known Member
In Philly, ground water is balmy 80 degrees this afternoon. So I took my old immersion chiller and had it in a bucket of ice water hooked up to a hose. So here's my 'flow' hose through immersion chiller, then into CFC from top inlet then exiting through the bottom, with wort being pumped from the bottom inlet, out the top of the CFC and back into the kettle to help chill entire mass.
This still took an hour to get to just over 80 degrees, and who knows how many gallons of water down the drain.
This was my first time using this method, usually I am better at regaining the waste water, but today was a clustercuss of variables. I'd like to waste less water and waste less time (more importantly). With these two chillers at my disposal, what's the most efficient way to chill wort reasonably? Am I missing something? I really would prefer not to purchase a plate chiller. In the past I've just used the immersion chiller and pumped back into the kettle near the coils, but seemed to take nearly the same amount of time. Any suggestions?
This still took an hour to get to just over 80 degrees, and who knows how many gallons of water down the drain.
This was my first time using this method, usually I am better at regaining the waste water, but today was a clustercuss of variables. I'd like to waste less water and waste less time (more importantly). With these two chillers at my disposal, what's the most efficient way to chill wort reasonably? Am I missing something? I really would prefer not to purchase a plate chiller. In the past I've just used the immersion chiller and pumped back into the kettle near the coils, but seemed to take nearly the same amount of time. Any suggestions?