if your using bottled water like i do as a general control standard in all my beers than you just introduced a new water source with varied hardness plus as clean as it might be in your freezer theres gotta be some sort of bug living up in those icemakers
i usually clog the sink drain fill halfway with cold water, submerge your pot in the water and dump ice around in the water...add ice as it melts. i usually cool 3 gallons down to 70* in 10 min
So when you top up with tap water you risk infection - sorry I raise the Bu!!$hi+ flag on you there. Been doing it for years with never a problem - all over the country. Paranoia is rampant on this board - with the advice some of you give it is no wonder we have 500 "did I ruin my beer" threads
on here every day. If your water is safe to drink, it is safe to brew with.
Generally ice in your wort is a capital Bad Idea (tm). Its a fantastic way of introducing bacteria into your unfermented wort. I highly recommend dishing out the $40 and getting a wort chiller. Its way more effective than ice and more sanitary.
Use frozen kittens.
Generally ice in your wort is a capital Bad Idea (tm). Its a fantastic way of introducing bacteria into your unfermented wort. I highly recommend dishing out the $40 and getting a wort chiller. Its way more effective than ice and more sanitary.
So when you top up with tap water you risk infection - sorry I raise the Bu!!$hi+ flag on you there. Been doing it for years with never a problem - all over the country. Paranoia is rampant on this board - with the advice some of you give it is no wonder we have 500 "did I ruin my beer" threads
on here every day. If your water is safe to drink, it is safe to brew with.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/add-hopssss-270241/
add "kittens" isn't even an option........(WTF????)
I'm not sure what wort chiller you have but it would have to be a V8 glycol double helix infused bad ass chiller to beat ice....it might not even be possible.
+1 here, whether or not you use ice 90% of new brewers are topping off with tap water.
Brilliant thread
I use a cold fusion motorized chiller. Obviously, it is cold.
I can honestly say that I have never topped off. Ah it's the 90% vs the 10%. Heh, nah I just never have because I always end up boiling down to my batch size. I did add Ice before I got a wort chiller, never had an issue. I just used the water I had boiled for my yeast washing purposes.
oh wait...........I thought you used frozen kittens?!??!?!?!?!?
Oh, I see.
You people are so behind. I use frozen kitties to power my cold fusion chiller.
Are frozen kitties considered renewable? I had heard that 90% of the worlds kitties will have been mined by 2023.
Maybe you should consider something a little more "green" mr smartypants. Like maybe frozen toddlers.
That just blows my mind and my whole process to s***.
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