brewt00l said:I am right there with you...perhaps one of the best brew equipment investments I have made in a while combined with my turkey fryer. Full boils and quick cold breaks!
Willsellout said:Do you taste a difference in your beers since you started doing full boils and using a chiller?
Dan
Caplan said:Mine took 10 min today to cool a 3 gallon boil.
They work great if you monitor the 'outflow' for heat. If it's cold it's not working - gently moving the immersion chiller sideways to another area of the pot can help with getting heat out.
Bobby_M said:Neckbone. Actually running the water as fast as possible will cool the fastest. Now, if you care about wasting water, then you're point is well taken. Running it fast guarentees the highest possible temperature delta which cools faster but wastes water.
In any case, the absolute fastest way to cool is to make sure the wort is whirlpooling the whole time. It requires that I use my sanitized paddle about 3 times in a 5 minute cooling period.
Glad you like the chiller by the way.
Paperface said:why in god's name is copper so expensive right now? I was going to build my own, but good grief...Looks like I'm sticking with ice baths and diluting with chilled water...
thenatibrewer said:chillers?? why? are we learning how the sew curtains next?? make a wort sickle and you can chill in pracitcally the same amount of time and you can keep your manhood...(ha, ha, ha)
but seriously we are getting a little crazy about all the equiptment we need just to do the same thing that men/women have been doing for centuries. we need to start a movement of simple brewing, no fancy ss pot with a built in thermometer, or bottle washer, autosipons etc. less is more, simpler is better. who is with me....i cannot hear you!!!!!!!!!!!
thenatibrewer said:make a wort sickle and you can chill in pracitcally the same amount of time and you can keep your manhood...(ha, ha, ha)
thenatibrewer said:what about tradition, what about history, what about living life as simple as possible....i guess we are bound to our cell phones, e-mail and pagers. oh yah i guess pagers are so yesterday. how about blackberries.
Pumbaa said:troll alert
I know over the summer the world's two largest copper mines we not producing, for varying reasons. Don't know if it's still the case, but yeah copper is expensive.Paperface said:why in god's name is copper so expensive right now? I was going to build my own, but good grief...Looks like I'm sticking with ice baths and diluting with chilled water...
So does my counterflow chiller...and it cost $30...and I like it. Thank you, however, for providing another technique that works for you.thenatibrewer said:try the wort cycle, it creates an amazing cold break...and it is cheap.
Your arguments are pretty asinine and it sounds like you are just trying to bate people into an argument.thenatibrewer said:chillers?? why? are we learning how the sew curtains next?? make a wort sickle and you can chill in pracitcally the same amount of time and you can keep your manhood...(ha, ha, ha)
but seriously we are getting a little crazy about all the equiptment we need just to do the same thing that men/women have been doing for centuries. we need to start a movement of simple brewing, no fancy ss pot with a built in thermometer, or bottle washer, autosipons etc. less is more, simpler is better. who is with me....i cannot hear you!!!!!!!!!!!
backwards said:i have it on good authority that natibrewer wants to buy an immersion chiller but his wife won't let him. he is also looking into the full-boil process and a pot that has a pour spout and a built-in temp gauge. he owns an autosiphon, uses my bottle washer and i think he was joking. bottom line: 'long as the beer goes down smooth, i don't care how it got there."
dirtymartini said:Decidedly low tech.....seriously though, a wort chiller is my next HB equipment purchase.
olllllo said:Apparently you haven't see Yuri's Snowbank Maker in the DIY forum.
thenatibrewer said:i may have to head to my LHBS and pick up one of those chiller things and see for myself how the others half lives, for experimental purposes only of course.
rdwj said:Are you talking about using ice??? Those of us that are "man" enough to do full boils don't add water to our finished wort.
thenatibrewer said:by the way, what is a troll?
emotional stress my comments caused
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