mikescooling
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What saves time on brew day?
I crank my water heater up to super hot. What do you do?
I crank my water heater up to super hot. What do you do?
So, you use to spend 2-3 hours cleaning your HLT, MLT and Kettle BEFORE you started brewing? Sometimes I might clean my kettle the next day, but most of my stuff is cleaned and stored before the boil is over. If you clean after use, there's no reason to do it again before starting your next brewday.I clean all 3 vessels the night before . . . I used to clean everything first and I was sitting around waiting for wort to boil! Went from 8-9 hours to 6 from heating strike to complete clean up.
Draw your strike & sparge water from the hot water faucet instead of starting with cold.
With all of the information out there telling us that we should not use water from the water heater to cook with I am surprised that anyone is brave enough to brew with it.
Links? I've never heard this before.
If I didn't use 120deg water from the HWH, I'd add at least an hour to my brew days.
With all of the information out there telling us that we should not use water from the water heater to cook with I am surprised that anyone is brave enough to brew with it.
Links? I've never heard this before.
If I didn't use 120deg water from the HWH, I'd add at least an hour to my brew days.
With all of the information out there telling us that we should not use water from the water heater to cook with I am surprised that anyone is brave enough to brew with it.
Why not? What are the potential hazards? What "information" is out there?
lots of people still have lead service lines and in some cases city water mains.That article is 20 years old! Who has lead pipes anymore? They were banned 70 years ago!
lots of people still have lead service lines and in some cases city water mains.
Draw your strike & sparge water from the hot water faucet instead of starting with cold.
My brew day is typically every Sunday, and I generally start at 7AM. My biggest time saver is that I use a heatstick plugged into a timer, so when I go into my brewing area at 7, my strike water is already at about 150ish. HUGE time saver...
Not looking at it as "a brew day" ,but rather something that I am doing in the background. If the mash has to sit 3 hours while I run to town then so be it.
I was under the impression you shouldnt use hot water directly from the tap for things like brewing, because that water has been potentially sitting in your hot water heater for weeks or months(assuming you have a 30-40Gallon Tank) and can get minerals and other off flavors from the tank from staying there so long.
I have often thought about this, letting the mash sit that is. What are the consequences of letting it sit longer? One would think that if the temp stays the same it would be okay.
I was under the impression you shouldnt use hot water directly from the tap for things like brewing, because that water has been potentially sitting in your hot water heater for weeks or months(assuming you have a 30-40Gallon Tank) and can get minerals and other off flavors from the tank from staying there so long.
So, you use to spend 2-3 hours cleaning your HLT, MLT and Kettle BEFORE you started brewing? Sometimes I might clean my kettle the next day, but most of my stuff is cleaned and stored before the boil is over. If you clean after use, there's no reason to do it again before starting your next brewday.
California has to put this on all water heaters ! sorry to paranoy anyone. I try to use spring water for all brews, but definatly not hot water. I use cold tap water to start off.
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