I want to circle back around to the begining a bit here. There's mentioning of copper wort chillers being a no no. 2 part question.
1) is there any pretreatment of a copper IC that could remove oxide to an acceptable point or a point of benefit?(heavy star san soak maybe?) Preboiling the IC in a separate kettle before use?
2) is the use of aluminum kettles acceptable in LODO?
As all metals will have an oxide lair to varying degrees. Is there any consensus of worst/best metals? Different grades of stainless better than others?
I can't fully commit to the LODO process at this point but I believe I am good from all aspects except IC and possibly kettles. I have for some time now had my cold side process in good shape, even before publication of this. I just can't commit to a new chiller at this time as I have exceeded the brew toys budget for the time being with camlocks and rims for my soon to be built rig. I have 15 and 20g Al kettles that would be costly to replace with SS. Conversely, I don't want to drop the coin on a new 50ft chiller if my kettles would make it a moot point.
Thank in advance for your feedback.
1) is there any pretreatment of a copper IC that could remove oxide to an acceptable point or a point of benefit?(heavy star san soak maybe?) Preboiling the IC in a separate kettle before use?
2) is the use of aluminum kettles acceptable in LODO?
As all metals will have an oxide lair to varying degrees. Is there any consensus of worst/best metals? Different grades of stainless better than others?
I can't fully commit to the LODO process at this point but I believe I am good from all aspects except IC and possibly kettles. I have for some time now had my cold side process in good shape, even before publication of this. I just can't commit to a new chiller at this time as I have exceeded the brew toys budget for the time being with camlocks and rims for my soon to be built rig. I have 15 and 20g Al kettles that would be costly to replace with SS. Conversely, I don't want to drop the coin on a new 50ft chiller if my kettles would make it a moot point.
Thank in advance for your feedback.