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squompie

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So. 20 litre batch of APA. Partial mash (steeping grains and LME). I have no wort cooler and trying to think of another way to cool that quantity of boiling wort without having to take it upstairs to cool in bath. Suggestions??

Love to yall.
 
Do you also partial boil? If so you can try what i used to do with great success which is to use frozen blocks of sterilised water as the top up "water". You can use large stainless steel bowls and foil covers or large plastic containers with lids. Just remember that water volume expands ~10% when frozen.

If you do full boils, you can try what I do now which is to lower large PET bottles of frozen water into the hot wort. Just make sure the bottle walls are thick (typically for carbonated drinks) and not the simple thin type used for distilled water as they crack in the heat. Of course, you should sanitise the bottle surfaces thoroughly after removing from the freezer - especially the subsequent rounds of bottles used when the wort is no longer boiling.
 
You could drop in frozen (plastic) bottles of water. Then fish them out when they're defrosted.

Before the next brew maybe build an immersion chiller or get one of those no-chill cubes?
 
Great. Yeah lowering frozen pet bottles sounds like a good idea. Do you do several at a time? Or one by one? how many do you think ole need?
 
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