Cooling Machine.

[BridgeBrew]

Just done my first A/G in a while, a nice Cascade smash. Trying the new wort cooler, hope it works

 

[BridgeBrew]

The boil finished at 4.30, 30 min hop stand, then placed into the cooler. The 25L of wort had cooled to 23 degrees by 7.30. I'm pretty happy with that 3 hours.

 

[jayk34]

That's an excellent idea! Are you intending to use that throughout fermentation to maintain a steady temperature ?

 

[BridgeBrew]

No. I have a fermentation fridge, this is purely to cool the boiled wort as quick as possible. Don't like the idea of sticking a copper coil in my nice sterile brew.

 

[JonathanMSE]

No. I have a fermentation fridge, this is purely to cool the boiled wort as quick as possible. Don't like the idea of sticking a copper coil in my nice sterile brew.

As long as the coil is clean it's not an issue. Put it in five minutes before the end of the boil and it sterilises itself!

 

[BridgeBrew]

I'll stick with this, don't know if it's as efficient. But it works good eno

 

[BridgeBrew]

Enough for me

 

[thegrantickle]

As long as the coil is clean it's not an issue. Put it in five minutes before the end of the boil and it sterilises itself!

+1

 

[BridgeBrew]

Probably me being paranoid. Howard Hughes has nothing on me, especially when it comes to brewing.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

The boil finished at 4.30, 30 min hop stand, then placed into the cooler. The 25L of wort had cooled to 23 degrees by 7.30. I'm pretty happy with that 3 hours.

Not bad - you'd probably find it would go faster if you stirred the wort a bit or at least swilled the bucket about fairly vigorously.
Any idea how much water it used? (I suppose you could always run the output hose onto the flower beds :-)

 

[BridgeBrew]

No idea how much water it used, we're not on a water meter pheww , but I did use the water that was left in the bin to water the wife's plant's. I did stir the wort about once an hour.