Gusmedic
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Hello all, my first ever batch is on its 5th day in the in the primary and I have a question for boiling/cooling my next batch. First off, this forum has been an amazing help to someone like myself just starting off. Thanks to everyone that takes the times and patience to help us noobs take our first steps. People are never made to feel like there's a bad question.
My first batch went awesome. I hit all my steeping temps and ingredient times perfectly and had the wort cooled to 70 F in 15 min with an ice bath. Having all this Illinois snow on the ground helps. Since that won't be the case for very long I'm going to make my own wort chiller.
I left my spoon in the kettle for the last 10 min of boil and it stayed in pot and then primary until the lid went on. I plan the same with wort chiller. My question(s) pertain to the kettle lid and whether or not it's needed after the boil. I read a lot about having a sanitized lid on as its cooling, but since the lid isnt present during the boil it's not sanitized. Do people sanitized their lids with the rest of their equip? With the spoon and WC sticking out of the pot after the boil and me being so active in cooling, I don't even see how I'll get a lid on or the need for one. Am I correct in this?
Sorry for the long read, but I wanted to lay out my technique to see if I'm missing something.
My first batch went awesome. I hit all my steeping temps and ingredient times perfectly and had the wort cooled to 70 F in 15 min with an ice bath. Having all this Illinois snow on the ground helps. Since that won't be the case for very long I'm going to make my own wort chiller.
I left my spoon in the kettle for the last 10 min of boil and it stayed in pot and then primary until the lid went on. I plan the same with wort chiller. My question(s) pertain to the kettle lid and whether or not it's needed after the boil. I read a lot about having a sanitized lid on as its cooling, but since the lid isnt present during the boil it's not sanitized. Do people sanitized their lids with the rest of their equip? With the spoon and WC sticking out of the pot after the boil and me being so active in cooling, I don't even see how I'll get a lid on or the need for one. Am I correct in this?
Sorry for the long read, but I wanted to lay out my technique to see if I'm missing something.