Why boil the wort chiller?

[kombat]

Whoops! My brain said pitching = yeast! My bad!

Uh... it does.

Wanna take one more swing at this?

 

[Safa]

Uh... it does.



Wanna take one more swing at this?

Ugh.... Fridays!


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[Sbarnard80]

Just to be on the safe side I soak my ic in my sanitation bucket which acts as my primary, but then feel very comfortable then dropping it in at flameout instead of during the boil.

 

[RmikeVT]

Two weeks from now there are going to be 20 posts in the "is this infected" thread.

 

[fearwig]

And the answer will be "no, that's yeast, welcome to homebrew"

 

[Trippel-A]

You can fix that. Get some more tubing and sweat a couple of couplings to each side. That should allow you to extend the arms of the chiller to hang over the sides of the pot. It'd proably cost you about $5 in materials. I did it with mine and was able to add an extra 20ft of coil.

I'd be nervous with that setup. If you ever develop a small water leak it's going to drip right into your nice sterile wort. You might not even notice it.

That actually happened to us the first time my friends and I brewed outside. We ran hose water through the chiller, and the pressure was higher than usual as a result. The vinyl tubes were only connected to the copper with hose clamps. We noticed water leaking into the wort from the vinyl tubes half way through chilling. :smack:

We were lucky, and noticed no ill effects. It was one of our better batches, actually.

 

[Trippel-A]

And that is how homebrewing misconceptions survive for a decade until someone shoots them down. The homebrewing community has some magical thinking to overcome when it comes to pasteurization and sanitation in particular.

One infection due to totally unrelated causes and someone will convince themselves to boil their wort chiller for an hour, or spray their boil kettle with starsan, or something else nonsensical. Meanwhile the culprit yeast or bacterium would have been killed by a minute or two at 145-150F, and the person in question is racking to a (perhaps not even necessary) secondary right next to their kitchen trash...

I'm an Occam's Razor kinda guy. I think the much simpler answer is that people confuse sanitization with sterilization.

 

[DakotaSouth]

Used a chiller for the first time this past weekend. Big fan of the quick chill. Less so of the 15 minutes of boiling it. Think I will try the soak in Starsan and add at flame out path next time.