barside laundry
Well-Known Member
I am thinking about cutting the garden hose off my homemade c/f chiller to use the copper inside as a prechiller and go back to my old immersion. 3 reasons:
1. I am beginning to believe that cooling the wort (all the wort) at once will yield better hop aroma and less dms.
2. Because I use an eletric keggle I can't whirlpool (the element creates turbulence) and my pickup tube drains off the bottom resulting clogging and a very very slow drain through the chiller (45 stressful minutes). I think it would work better if I could raise the keggle or afford a pump, neither are possible. I would just siphon the chilled wort with a racking cane off the top and leave the trub behind.
3. I will be making a lager this weekend and the prechiller/immersion will probably chill the wort down to 60, which my c/f never will do.
thoughts?
1. I am beginning to believe that cooling the wort (all the wort) at once will yield better hop aroma and less dms.
2. Because I use an eletric keggle I can't whirlpool (the element creates turbulence) and my pickup tube drains off the bottom resulting clogging and a very very slow drain through the chiller (45 stressful minutes). I think it would work better if I could raise the keggle or afford a pump, neither are possible. I would just siphon the chilled wort with a racking cane off the top and leave the trub behind.
3. I will be making a lager this weekend and the prechiller/immersion will probably chill the wort down to 60, which my c/f never will do.
thoughts?