Golddiggie- I am very curious about that 02 injection you were talking about. Sounds like a great idea, and yes I do have a bad back, which has prompted me to now use a March pump and a single tiered system. With this 02 system, are you putting a sterilized hose directly into the chilled wort...
Thanks everyone for clearing up this confusion I have been having for some time. When I first learned how to brew, I was told to not touch the wort as it was cooling as to produce a cleaner beer then lately I have been reading the exact opposite! I can now chill my beer with confidence...
So I have heard two schools of thought about chilling wort with an imersion chiller:
1. Do not touch it when its cooling. Let the cold break, hops and other solids fall to the bottom of the kettle and either drain or syphon off the clear wort. This clears out the wort leaving the sediment...