This is the first time I have brewed. I read Palmer, watched 5-6 how to brew videos on youtube and we still screwed it up!!! You know none of it really made sense until I actually got out there and did it. This batch may be $30 down the drain. Don't worry though, I'm going to bottle it and...
So we shoveled a bunch of dirty ass snow into our tub and started running cool water. That still was taking a while and we were freaking out because it had already been like 35 minutes. So we picked up the bucket and started moving it around in the tub. This dropped the temp in literally 5...
So I don't have a wort chiller (one is now on the way) and I thought it would work to just make a pile of snow and stick it in and the temp was around 25 degrees. I was way wrong. It took about 25 minutes to drop only 50 degrees!!!