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So do you guys just skim the Kraeusen off the top as the beer is fermenting then?

As far as I know, that's where religion comes in.

I'm pretty sure that when people say "quickly" chill the wort, they're talking about a different type of quickly. The whole point of a CFC is to take a small amount of wort and rapidly cool it from near boiling to pitching temperature. Since most of the bacteria that produce off flavors grow at...

Unless your CFC is operating near it's maximum efficiency, wouldn't you want the wort to kind of meander through? My wort comes out slowly too, but with my home-made CFC it still ends up ~6-7 degrees hotter than the tap water. Speeding the flow up with a pump would just make it worse.

The universe is not expanding at the speed of light. If it were, we would see no stars in the sky, no distant galaxies, powerful bursts from pulsars, or the like. The universe is expanding at a an accelerating rate however. This accelerating rate started ~7x10^9 years after the big bang, and is...

I've had to brew without a chiller a few times due to my CFC being on the fritz. I just put my "top off" water in a trash can ice bath, similar to how people cool kegs at college parties. I have no idea how cold this water got, but when I added it to the boiling wort, I'd end up with a mixture...