Millatime417
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It was really a rhetorical question...I know it's a lot. I've witnessed it.
One brewer here mentioned using the chiller and catching the hot water to help him with hot water for cleaning up afterwards. I'm not a tree hugger mind you, but that is a smart way to reuse that water.
Harpoon (and probably many other big boys) uses the heated water from the heat exchanger to start their next brew. Obviously this is on a much larger scale but doing this you save the water and using less energy to heat the water in the mash tun.
Probably not practical for the homebrewer but i suppose if you're doing back to back batches it could work...
