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I do similar these days and have not found off tastes or infections as yet.
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You cooled to 40° and were probably very hands on by the sound of it. If you just let it cool naturally to around 50° and clean up while waiting, all you'd be left to clean would be the kettle. Might be an efficient way of doing it.
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Only use HDPE cubes if you really want to cube the wort. But I agree with what a couple of others have said: leave it in the kettle until the next day. The kettle is sanitised, so there are no worries there.
The other issue is the hops, some will say to use the 40 minute in place of 60 min, 10 minute in place of 30 minutes 20 and later add after flame out or in the cube.
It makes more sense to calculate the hops at 80 minutes, not 60 minutes and the same with other additions. Isomerisation at 90C is half of what it is at 100C. Brewers Friend or the like will help calculate the additions.
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Have you forgot your tablets 
Ps. Have you seen my other thread? I know you know the answer.
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/cleaver-priming-sugar-required.105940/
Ps. Have you seen my other thread? I know you know the answer.
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/cleaver-priming-sugar-required.105940/
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The piccie of my no-chill cubes with "anti-bulge" plates attached and overly complicated fillers, ready to go, as promised earlier:
Don't actually need those "complicated" tee-pieces on the fillers: The "Y" splitter like on the "Hop Missile" (a Chinese rip-off of the Blichmann Hop Rocket) with two filler tubes does the same job - i.e. fill two or more cubes without interuption (I brew 45/65L batches). The air vents (blue pipes here) are needed because the cubes are filled while sealed. Needs a pump on the boiler (if it's an impeller pump the cubes simply stop filling when full ... they can't overflow).
The "Hop Missile" replaces the purpose of "whirlpool" and "steep" hops (which you can't use with no-chill cubes 'cos the cubes must be filled straight after the boil).
Now @MashBag's reminded me, I'm just off down the tablet Chemist for a resupply.
Don't actually need those "complicated" tee-pieces on the fillers: The "Y" splitter like on the "Hop Missile" (a Chinese rip-off of the Blichmann Hop Rocket) with two filler tubes does the same job - i.e. fill two or more cubes without interuption (I brew 45/65L batches). The air vents (blue pipes here) are needed because the cubes are filled while sealed. Needs a pump on the boiler (if it's an impeller pump the cubes simply stop filling when full ... they can't overflow).
The "Hop Missile" replaces the purpose of "whirlpool" and "steep" hops (which you can't use with no-chill cubes 'cos the cubes must be filled straight after the boil).
Now @MashBag's reminded me, I'm just off down the tablet Chemist for a resupply.
Sorry I can't help with no-chill but I am interested to know how you managed to use your immersion chiller with no running water?
You could run it like a siphon, cold bucket up high draining to another.
But you would have to be careful holding the pipes in place so it doesn't spurt over the floor or overflow.
And controlling the flow rate so it doesn't empty too quickly.
But with the amount of water that an immersion chiller uses you would need a lot of bucket refills! After saving the first couple for cleaning you couldn't really reuse the water because it would be warm after going through the chiller so you would need to constantly get rid of them and without running water I wouldn't expect a sink to pour them into.
I am not having a go, I was genuinely wondering how the OP had managed.
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Run it on a bucket of ice and a pond pump.
Pipe it up to a rainwater butt.
Run it to and from a well.
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Fair enough, I hadn't considered using an ice bucket to cool and re-use the water
Sorry MashbagI have two sinks without running water. How dare you
I have two immersion coils the first will be in the kettle the second in a bucket which I will pour bagged ice from the supermarket into with a submersible pump in a third bucket which will be the reservoir. Plan is to pump the water through the cold coil before it goes to the kettle coil then the water is returned to the pump bucket. No idea how it’s going to work but wanted to see if I could save water. I can run a hose to the garage but don’t have a drain there so it’s a pain emptying buckets of wam water away.
The water from the kettle coil will be very hot at the beginning. It'll probably melt your ice in no time. Maybe leave the kettle sit for an hour and cool naturally to a more manageable temperature before running through your ice bucket?
It will be a fermentation bucket full of ice I thought it would be an interesting experiment as I can revert back to the hosepipe feed if it’s not working. My main focus is to reduce the amount of waste water so I may be better off starting from the hosepipe and collect hot water for cleaning then introduce the second coil after I have dropped to 80 degrees for whirlpool hop addition.
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Is this discussion about "no-chill" started to get decidedly "warm"? Or is it just me?
"Immersion chillers" and "bagged ice"? Beats all my attempts to bump threads off-subject and hi-jack 'em. I'll have to try harder ....
I'll trouble the Mods to see if this change of direction can be splintered off into its own thread (which others with no interest in "no-chill" might read and contribute to) ...
"Immersion chillers" and "bagged ice"? Beats all my attempts to bump threads off-subject and hi-jack 'em. I'll have to try harder ....
I'll trouble the Mods to see if this change of direction can be splintered off into its own thread (which others with no interest in "no-chill" might read and contribute to) ...
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Lol. We were thinking along the same lines.
The only water you need to use is in your coffee. Leave it to cool on its own! Saves no end of water.
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What is the benefit of half filling a cornie?
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Big gas space. No co2 cylinder required.
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