Love my new immersion chiller

[olllllo]

Decidedly low tech.....seriously though, a wort chiller is my next HB equipment purchase.

Apparently you haven't see Yuri's Snowbank Maker in the DIY forum.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

Apparently you haven't see Yuri's Snowbank Maker in the DIY forum.

LMAO!!!


:cross:

 

[desiderata]

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.

Well, he can't be THAT against it.

 

[thenatibrewer]

WOW!!! that was sweet, i just finished reading your guys commits and i have to admit i never thought i had stirred up such a mess
. i really was just kidding and having fun with the chiller thread. i infact as backwards stated am looking at getting a chiller if i could talk my wife into it (i think i am close by the way).

i never and i repeat never called any of you a sissy. and yes sometimes i am a little asinine (richbrewer) but not in this case. i called it a sissification of america (ex/ no smoking a bars), not specifically YOU! so i apologize for any emotional stress my comments caused. i do have a desire to get back to the simple, wood fire and oak barrels. but i realize just like anything else things change and progress. and i am all in for that.

all i want to do is brew great brew the simpliest way possible. i know you guys have helped me with my techniques tremedously thus far. i hope that your help will still be given freely. thanks for putting me in my place. until next time, have a brew on me...

by the way, what is a troll?

 

[thenatibrewer]

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.

now that is hateful!!! most of the people reading this add water to the wort, are you saying they are not men either??? it is all in good fun...take care!!!

 

[brewt00l]

by the way, what is a troll?

short version: forum member that creates threads/responses/controversy just to bait other members into responding or for attention.

 

[Orfy]

emotional stress my comments caused

It'll take a bigger Troll than you to do that!

 

[backwards]

ah now boys - be nice. nati is coming clean here and you are refusing him back in the community of hops and ales and lagers and whatnot? come on now. i say we embrace like men (and ladies) and get back to beer talk. our lives are too short to worry about feelings and trolls (whatever they are) and all the rest. let us have peace and some talk about growing my own hops.

 

[olllllo]

There is peace.
Nati asked what a troll is.
brewt00l told him.
Orfy maintained that he has thick skin, so fuggeddaboutit.
We all got drunk and pissed on the same tree.
I think you got it backwards, backwards.

??

 

[Fingers]

Ah geez. We ain't gonna have to group hug now, are we?

Someone always has pickled egg breath...

 

[rdwj]

Ah geez. We ain't gonna have to group hug now, are we?

Someone always has pickled egg breath...

Sure, why not!

 

[brewt00l]

There is peace.
Nati asked what a troll is.
brewt00l told him.
Orfy maintained that he has thick skin, so fuggeddaboutit.
We all got drunk and pissed on the same tree.
I think you got it backwards, backwards.

??

Yup...no ill will here.

 

[thenatibrewer]

so we are ending this thread......or are we still going to take cheap shots at each other. by the way rdwj, that picture is very disturbing?????

 

[zoebisch01]

ah now boys - be nice. nati is coming clean here and you are refusing him back in the community of hops and ales and lagers and whatnot? come on now. i say we embrace like men (and ladies) and get back to beer talk. our lives are too short to worry about feelings and trolls (whatever they are) and all the rest. let us have peace and some talk about growing my own hops.

Doh sorry nati. I haven't looked at this thread lately. I was hoping my initial post wasn't coming through too harsh. I even edited it to make sure. I didn't realize you were making a joke. Anyways, we have had a good deal of tension on the forums lately with people acting up (trolling etc) which has a bunch of us a bit on edge. If you had been around for a while, the comment probably would have been interpreted as a joke but since most of us don't know you it is hard to gauge. But since you have "come clean" with your feelings all is well :fro:

big e-hug.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

Great big 'atta-boy' to all you guys for sorting this out. Things have been pretty crazy around here and I'm glad this one didn't end in closed threads and banninations.

Thanks guys! As you were...

:rockin:

 

[BierMuncher]

A round for the house on me...



Back to the dart board fellas (and gals)...nuthin to see here. Pay no attention to that logo on that glass.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

Pay no attention to that logo on that glass.

Could you not have even turned it around?

 

[BierMuncher]

Could you not have even turned it around?

Heh..heh...sorry.

I was caught up in the wild exitement of my first AG brew that day WITH my home made immersion chiller. :cross:

Oh yeah, that is a daguerreotype, not a digital picture.

We no need no stinking technology . . . :cross:

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

Oh yeah, that is a daguerreotype, not a digital picture.

Cool! I had heard rumors that USB daguerreotype plates were being researched...

 

[sirsloop]

I just busted out my new chiller for the first batch. It kicks major ass!! Took 4 gallons from boiling down to 70°F in 9 minutes! WOOT!!! Between the chiller, auto-siphon, and keg setup... brewing just became much easier and time efficient! I just did a complete batch from start to finish in 90 minutes!

 

[Willsellout]

I built my chiller yesterday, went smooth as silk really. I wrapped it around my sanitizing bucket, bent in and output's with a pipe bender and attached compression fittings with garden hose attachments. All in all I spent less, and got more. Now I have a 40' 1/2" chiller and no leaks to speak of. I'm building my mash tun today with part I got yesterday from the plumbing supply place, I hope they work out:rockin:



Dan

 

[kingjam]

When do you guys introduce the chiller to the hot wort? I would think you would want to put it in as soon as you turn the flame off(and its still boiling), this way it Sanitizes it. Right????

 

[the_bird]

Even earlier - with ten or fifteen minutes still left in the boil. That way, it's completely sanitized, and all set to fly.

 

[BierMuncher]

Yep. I go 20 minutes before the end. You'll see the boil slow down, but only for a few minutes. You want a full boil on that chiller to completely sanitize.

 

[kingjam]

If I am going to start out doing extract brewing do i need a chiller. I read you only put 2 or so Gal. into the boil. A chiller may be over kill???? Also when do you do full 5 gal boils? Thanks

 

[sirsloop]

its pretty wild actually... the side open starts shooting out all sorts of steam from the left over water hiding out in the chiller (if you have used it recently that is). Its pretty funny too when you hit the cold water. The wort will be at a rolling boil and the instant the cold water turns on the boil just stops dead. Now that I have one, I don't know how you could stand to brew without it!!!

 

[kingjam]

Yes but do I need one for extract brewing??

 

[olllllo]

Yes but do I need one for extract brewing??

NEED? No.
But it is among the top 3 things you can do to improve your beer.

You also don't NEED exceptional tasting beer.

 

[sirsloop]

Yes but do I need one for extract brewing??

I haven't needed one for the last year, but now that I finally broke down and bought one I can't believe what I was missing. Think about it... it literally removes 30 minutes from your brew time. The only thing that could cut off that much time would be a 200,000 btu propane burner for getting your water up to temp.

 

[kingjam]

Ok I am sold