How long does it take to cool your wort?

[Setesh]

Like a dumb butt I kinked my ribcage chiller by laying it on it's side a little too hard. The tube that connect the two coils is kinked really bad and I don't want to bend it back because I'm afraid it will snap. I need to get a larger piece to braise over the sections to repair it. I first chill to within a few degrees of what ground water temp is (87 right now) and then switch to recirculating ice water through with a computer water pump. Now the poor pump can't get much water past the kink and that is why my times went up so much. Before this snafu it took me about 20 minutes to get 6 gallons from boiling to 64, now it takes over 30. :smack:

 

[tennesseean_87]

I've not got very specific data, but in PA summers, probably 3-45 minutes to chill 3-4 gallons down to 80ish. 20'x3/8" IC plus tap water bath for two pots. I get the rest by getting beer into ferm chamber, and pitching a little hot while it's cooling down. I'm starting to top off with pre-chilled water even though I do all-grain (I've never gotten my volumes just right) so I add less than a gallon to hit my 3-4 gallon volume. It's a lot faster in the winter/spring with cold ground water.

I am going to buy a covered ice tray or two to sanitize and fill with RO water and freeze the night before, and use this to top off--this should help me get those last few pesky degrees.

 

[PastorofMuppets]

Today I did something different. I wound up my garden hose into a 18 gallon barrel with rope handles. I attached the hose to the normal faucet and the out of the hose to the copper chiller in the pot. I added water and 20 frozen water bottles to the barrel with some ice. The water going into the chiller was cold cold. I got the wort down to pitching temp in 15 min with awesome cold break. The water from the faucet was about 77 degrees. It was a great idea and worked great. I was chilling for about 40 min and then putting the wort in carboy and then in the fermentation fridge overnight. No more summertime blues for me.

 

[Puddlethumper]

Today I did something different. I wound up my garden hose into a 18 gallon barrel with rope handles. I attached the hose to the normal faucet and the out of the hose to the copper chiller in the pot. I added water and 20 frozen water bottles to the barrel with some ice. The water going into the chiller was cold cold. I got the wort down to pitching temp in 15 min with awesome cold break. The water from the faucet was about 77 degrees. It was a great idea and worked great. I was chilling for about 40 min and then putting the wort in carboy and then in the fermentation fridge overnight. No more summertime blues for me.

Cool idea! Kudos to you man. I gotta try that!

 

[LymanBrewing]

Well, for my first few batches using an IC, like a dummy I didn't read exactly how to use it. I thought that the way it worked is that the cold water went in one end, leached the heat from the wort, and came out the other end hot/warm; so I had my hose turned on to basically a trickle. This "seemed" to work fine for the first 30-40 degrees of temperature change but what I didn't realize is how much that was really hurting my performance. Pitching temp wasn't reached for close to an hour!!!

Well, this forum saved me, and jump forward to now and from the time I turn off my burner, the hose is cranked wide open and I'm chilling 5 gallons to pitching temp in about 12-15 minutes. (I'm on a well, and our groundwater is cold as hell year round).

 

[Kiknjville]

Today it took 15 minutes to cool 5 gallons from boiling to 70 using my new submersible pump addition. Cooling wort when it's 105 out isn't fun. My 25' x 1/2" homemade immersion chiller can only get it down to 85 in this heat.

I bought a 264 gph pump from harbor freight and got some 5/8" silicone hose to go from the pump to the chiller. Cooled the wort from boiling to 100 using tap water then put the pump in a cooler with water and two bags of ice and recirculated that through the chiller. 100 to 70 in 5 minutes. Worked like a boss. Couldn't be happier with it.

Sweet! Picked this pump up the other day. Can't wait to use it.