WOW! Just finished up....
This beer better turn out good...
first off, brew day complications: decided to try the new whirlpool arm. well, lets say, it DID create a whirlpool. However, it did not produce a compact trub cone, just a 2 gallon thick layer of crud. AND I decided that since I'd end up with a nice trub cone, NOT to use hop sacks. Maybe I didn't wait long enough after shutting off the pump to let the cone develop...
I finished the boil, started the whirlpool and added flameout hops and let dwell for 20 minutes.
I then put the immersion chiller in (sanitized) and cooled with whirlpool recirculation going. Then chilled to near 70º before I ran out of ice water. Then I removed the coil and continued to whirlpool for 15 minutes and then shut off pump. then I let it rest a bit and ran off some wort to the fermenter through the Brewer's Hardware wort filter. This thing can clear the wort really really well...until it gets plugged with hops. But, its relatively easy to clear so that's a plus... Next time I brew this, definitely using hop sacks. Thought about using a hop spider, but seemed a bad idea. Searching for better wort filtering ideas before I brew again...
I put it to bed using some Mangrove Jack M07 yeast...
TD