Cooling to room temp...too long?

[dgoldb1]

My issue is that my tap water is semi-warm (75*F) so I;ve only been able to chill my wort down to 85*F with my immersion chiller. Is it okay to let my kettle sit after whirlpooling for about an hour or two until the water gets down to pitching temp? It's covered so nothing can get into the kettle while it's sitting. Any side effecs from doing this?

 

[djfriesen]

Any way you could prep 5 gallons of ice water and siphon it through as your wort starts to equalize with the tap water? I don't know the repercussions very well, but I continually see people advising as fast a cooldown as possible.

 

[dgoldb1]

Well...being under 100*F I think I'm out of the danger zone. I just don't want to pitch too high and get some off flavors like fusel alchoals.

 

[Beerens]

In the summer I use a giant ice bath for my five gallons of wort. Mix a few gallons of water with ice and salt. Works like a charm. I think that your biggest concern should be with infection. The sooner you have the yeast in there the better. The yeast will stave off a bacterial infection. I have heard of brewers who just cover their wort when it is done boiling and coming back 12 hours later after it has cooled down to pitch their yeast.

 

[DosGatosBrewing]

This summer, the tap water was too warm for my IC to get wort down to pitching temps, so I made a pre-chiller. Even setting the pre-chiller in a bucket of ice water wasn't enough, so I just racked the wort at 82 degrees over to a fermenter and closed it up. Overnight in the basement got it down to pitching temps. I was very careful not to let any non-sanitized items come into contact with the yeast or the wort.

Everything went as normal after that.

 

[ChaosStout]

My issue is that my tap water is semi-warm (75*F) so I;ve only been able to chill my wort down to 85*F with my immersion chiller. Is it okay to let my kettle sit after whirlpooling for about an hour or two until the water gets down to pitching temp? It's covered so nothing can get into the kettle while it's sitting. Any side effecs from doing this?

Are you doing full 5 gallon boils or partial boils? If your doing Partial boild just have some Ice cold distilled water from the fridge or freezer to top off. That will get you nice and low temps for pitching

 

[sudsmcgee]

Use the chiller to get it below 100, and invest in a pond pump in a bucket to recirculate ice water through the Chiller until you reach 60 degrees. Only takes a few minutes.

 

[collinsDPT]

This is what I use.

$5 bin from walmart, used scrap wood to build a little frame that the handles from my pot can sit on.

I fill the bucket with about 10# of ice, set in the kettle pot, then fill in with ice around it and add a few gallons of hose water. Then I use a stirring spoon to just keep the water moving around the pot.

I cool 5gal to 70deg in about 15 minutes