Electric Kettle - cooling

[HomeBrewer_UK]

Hi,

I am planning to buy a 30 l burco kettle for home brew but wasnt sure how best to cool the wort.

i live in a flat and dont have any use for the circulated warm water. And i dont feel comfortable pouring clean water through the drain...

One solution i though was transferring the wort into another (heat resistant) container which i can dip into cold/icy water, Would that work in terms of brew quality and is the risk of contamination manageable in your opinion?

Thanks in advance.

 

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The Physicist in me thinks that cooling such a volume of liquid in that way would take some time, though I don't have hands on experience of this. Also, I'd be more worried about the waste of energy freezing sufficient water to make ice only to melt it again than I would running the clean water away. Could you run the clean water from a wort chiller in to the bath and add some bubbles to have a nice soak (I appreciate you may not have a bath in a flat)?

 

[Ben034]

Lots of members utilise a "no chill cube." Basically, transferring hot wort to a sealed heat proof container (often some kind of a plastic jerry can that can contract). There are pros and cons to this. I prefer to chill my wort rapidly but lots have used the above method with success.

If you don't have a chiller, the above method is likely your best bet. I've tried cooling 10l wort in a bath and it was not fun so any larger volume must be very slow down to 18/19c. Also lifting boiling wort is never a good plan if possible.

I justify the wasted water on the basis that I've reused the same bottles 80+ times and beer isn't having to be transported across the country to my house...

 

[HomeBrewer_UK]

Very much appreciated - really hearing others’ view and experience is very baluable. Sabings from bottles, energy wasted from freezng are the stuff i had not appreciate. I think i will go back to researching the wort chillers then :)

thanks again

 

[Ben034]

It's definitely one of the best purchases you will make to avoid stress at the end of a brewday