cooling wort with sanitary ice

[northernlad]

My boil is usually running upwards of 200 degrees

I hope so!

And waht is with all these people rinsing a a norinse sanitizer. Are you rinsing it with sanitizer or dirty ass city tap water?

 

[TheFlatline]

Paranoia. My friend used to freak out at the idea of starsan foam still being in the carboy. He also had issues with not boiling honey to make mead.

He's outgrown these things since, but he wouldn't take my word for it, in spite of any amount of assurances and anecdotes from my experience.

 

[bad67z]

If you *really* have a problem I suppose you could use a submersible pump and a cooler to recirculate the water.

Once the water stops being scalding hot and is merely hot/warm, I water the tree and some of the grass in my back yard with it. Only ever have a problem if I use water that's too hot for me to put my finger in the jet.

+1 to the recirculating.

I have built an secondary chiller and plan on put it in a cooler of ice water. Once i get to between 100-120 deg. with my primary I will flip the valve and switch to the recirculating secondary. I'm hoping to get my chill time down to 10-12 minutes in the summertime when the tap water is 70 degrees. I'm only short a pump at this time but the tap water has cooled to the low 60's. This build can wait until spring.

Cheers...

 

[colbystephens]

I'm doing extract brewing and I've taken to boiling 2.5 gallons in my brewpot and throwing the other 2.5 gallons in the freezer when I get started. By the time I need to cool my wort the water in the freezer is just starting to freeze up. I throw my brewpot in an ice bath in the sink for a few minutes, top it off with one gallon of nearly frozen water and wait 5 or 10 minutes, transfer it to my primary and then add the rest of the water. This method got me to 75* without any trouble, so I was able to pitch my yeast right then.

I'm a newbie, but this has basically been my method too. I boiled my water the night before, put it in a clean carboy and early the next morning (brew-morning) I put it out side in a sealed carboy so it would get real cold ~35* or so. I had the temp of my wort down to below 70* in 10 minutes. Worked great - fantastic beer. I'm doing partial grain brewing, if that makes a difference over all extract brewing.