HawaiianHippie
Active Member
Aloha all!
I see people regularly recommend against using ice to cool wort. Saw a new post just today that said "Just don't do something stupid like dump ice into it"
Why the discrimination against icing hot wort? Is it purely a fear of contamination? Or is there some other insidious, complex chemical process at work?
I do this regularly, and I've gotta tell ya, no wort chiller made can cool faster than a few pounds of cubed ice! I can go from full boil to pitching yeast in about 15 minutes. And, to date, no batch-wide infections (a few bottle-specific problems, but one can't blame that on the ice, just the bottle washer!)
So what's the story?
I see people regularly recommend against using ice to cool wort. Saw a new post just today that said "Just don't do something stupid like dump ice into it"
Why the discrimination against icing hot wort? Is it purely a fear of contamination? Or is there some other insidious, complex chemical process at work?
I do this regularly, and I've gotta tell ya, no wort chiller made can cool faster than a few pounds of cubed ice! I can go from full boil to pitching yeast in about 15 minutes. And, to date, no batch-wide infections (a few bottle-specific problems, but one can't blame that on the ice, just the bottle washer!)
So what's the story?