grotuk
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Hi crew,
A Californian here trying to save water.
After having wasted too much water this year with an IC, I'm setting up a more efficient process before my next brewing day. My idea is to have a tank/bucket with water that I can store in my garage so on brewing day it will be around 70 degrees that I can lower with some ice.
I'll then connect the output of the tank to a pump and to the CFC. From there it will go back to the tank.
I have a pump for the water and a pump for the wort.
My question is, how big does the tank need to be if my batches are of 5 gallons? I'm not sure if the math works that if the water is at 40 (with enough ice) and the wort starts at 200, if my buckets is of 5 gallons I'll reduce it to 120 ( (200+40)/2 = 120). Is this logic correct or the efficiency is higher than that?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
A Californian here trying to save water.
After having wasted too much water this year with an IC, I'm setting up a more efficient process before my next brewing day. My idea is to have a tank/bucket with water that I can store in my garage so on brewing day it will be around 70 degrees that I can lower with some ice.
I'll then connect the output of the tank to a pump and to the CFC. From there it will go back to the tank.
I have a pump for the water and a pump for the wort.
My question is, how big does the tank need to be if my batches are of 5 gallons? I'm not sure if the math works that if the water is at 40 (with enough ice) and the wort starts at 200, if my buckets is of 5 gallons I'll reduce it to 120 ( (200+40)/2 = 120). Is this logic correct or the efficiency is higher than that?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.