Wort chiller 101

[Jun]

I did an experiment over past two days, one was to recirculate water in the same cooler and the other to have one cooler with cold water and the other just to collect the hot water coming out of the chiller.
The second method did the job in half the time! I didn't even need to use ice water.

Oh.. I also turned the pump speed down a bit, that might have helped as well.

 

[Superman3278]

Try making your own recyclable ice; use a 3 liter soda bottle filled to 80% to allow for expansion. Make at least four bottles and be shure use sanitary water because they do somtimes crack. I drop one in my wort and one in my pre-chiller pail then switch out as nessacary. I go from 215df to 60df in 4 min. flat 3.5 gal wort, note: the faster you get below 78df the better "cold break" for clarity purpose only. I also use pre boiled pre chilled top off water for 5.5gal batches because there is no added benifit of boiling all the water with ingrediants, no infusing going on in beer making just extraction from grain to hops.

Cheers