Well so I know the water coming out of my tap is to warm to bring down the wort temprature enough but I thought I had figured it out....
Well it sure did not do much... I still had to cast my yeast way over the temp recommended.
I put it in the fermentation chamber which was set at 35 Degrees but I know that it takes a long time for 11 gallons of wort to cool down...
after about 8 hours I set the temp on the fermentation chamber to 65 and then the next day to 68 hopping I have not "screwed the pooch"...
I guess if I am going to brew around "DC" this time of year I need to boil and freeze water to go directly into the wort when it gets to the lowest temperature I have done this before when I did 5 gallon batches
Boil a few gallons for 15-20 minutes,,,, put it in Ziplock Freezer Bags freeze it,,,, and then slice open the bag and drop the whole thing into the wort
Other ideas Welcome .
- brought my wort down as low as it would go.
- put one wort chiller in a bucket of 16 lbs of ice
- connected it to the other wort chiller that went to the Brew Kettle.
- and let it run until the ice was gone...
Well it sure did not do much... I still had to cast my yeast way over the temp recommended.
I put it in the fermentation chamber which was set at 35 Degrees but I know that it takes a long time for 11 gallons of wort to cool down...
after about 8 hours I set the temp on the fermentation chamber to 65 and then the next day to 68 hopping I have not "screwed the pooch"...
I guess if I am going to brew around "DC" this time of year I need to boil and freeze water to go directly into the wort when it gets to the lowest temperature I have done this before when I did 5 gallon batches
Boil a few gallons for 15-20 minutes,,,, put it in Ziplock Freezer Bags freeze it,,,, and then slice open the bag and drop the whole thing into the wort
Other ideas Welcome .