jhudson3030
Active Member
Hello, as of this point I have not had any problems but for some reason this question arose. How vulnerable would you say the wort is after the boil during the aprox. ten minute cool time (using a wort chiller)? For this question I say that the lid would be off due to having your chiller in the brew pot so the cooling wort will be exposed to the atmosphere. I would just assume it would be easy for your wort to be exposed to some kind of airborne bacteria or wild yeast while the wort is exposed to the atmosphere and cooling to a temperature range that will allow bad stuff to grow. Also you may take into consideration the transfer from the boil pot through the strainer to a bucket and then from the bucket to a car boy.