eljefebrewing
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Hi again,
Got a lot of responses to my first post, and quickly! This is a great site!
Here's another question: I am a fan of Alton Brown's show, "Good Eats," on the Food Network. He seems to have a very practical approach to everything he does. In the episode titled "Amber Waves," he makes a batch of homebrew. His method was to boil 3 gallons, add a 7 lb. bag of ice plus 1 gallon and 1 pint of refrigerated bottled water (makes 2 gallons) to the fermenter bucket, and pour in the hot wort.
To me, that seems like a quick and easy way to cool the wort quickly, and to make up a total of 5 gallons! However, this doesn't seem to be a method that's recommended by a lot of people. Why wouldn't one do things this way? I would think that doing a full 5 gallon boil would require A) a bigger pot, B) more cooling time, and/or C) a wort chiller. The full boil would require a bigger, more expensive pot, and a wort chiller is also extra cost, and probably not as fast as using ice to cool the wort?
Your input is appreciated!
Got a lot of responses to my first post, and quickly! This is a great site!
Here's another question: I am a fan of Alton Brown's show, "Good Eats," on the Food Network. He seems to have a very practical approach to everything he does. In the episode titled "Amber Waves," he makes a batch of homebrew. His method was to boil 3 gallons, add a 7 lb. bag of ice plus 1 gallon and 1 pint of refrigerated bottled water (makes 2 gallons) to the fermenter bucket, and pour in the hot wort.
To me, that seems like a quick and easy way to cool the wort quickly, and to make up a total of 5 gallons! However, this doesn't seem to be a method that's recommended by a lot of people. Why wouldn't one do things this way? I would think that doing a full 5 gallon boil would require A) a bigger pot, B) more cooling time, and/or C) a wort chiller. The full boil would require a bigger, more expensive pot, and a wort chiller is also extra cost, and probably not as fast as using ice to cool the wort?
Your input is appreciated!