Pour over ice?

[JebCkr]

Whoa nice dig, this was one of my first posts. For the record I do not do this anymore, but never had a problem when I did. Now, if I do an extract brew, I just put the pot with the wort in a sink of ice and if it is still a little warm I add cold water from gallon jugs.

Cheers.

 

[BrewingRob]

For what it's worth, I tried this on my latest batch, and I had a lot of lag time. It's possible that the purified water didn't have what the yeast needed. Then again, the yeast was on the older side, and the strain of yeast has a history of having a longer lag time. So, make of it what you will.

But for cooling the wort quickly? A+ It took 10 minutes to cool 3 gals of water. I placed the wort in an ice bath while getting the jugs ready. I took 2 gallon jugs of frozen water, sanitized them, thawed them enough to allow the plastic to slip off, and cut them open with a sanitized knife. I poured the wort slowly over the ice. Cooled in 10 min...