Sorry all been helping a friend move, been a hectic few days
I am not having a go, I was genuinely wondering how the OP had managed.
To answer your question gav
Run it on a bucket of ice and a pond pump.
Like this
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.
Yeah... lol pretty much this too
It was messy and incredibly inconvenient. Had two buckets set up and two jerry cans of fresh water for the space I have, wildly inefficient to try to bounce between the two and then dispose of water that was too hit to use.
i had to run up and down the flights of stairs several times with these to dump and stick the shower hose in to refill with cold water and then bound back up stairs with them.
It was exhausting and became way more of a chore than a bit of fun for the night after work
It's why I started this thread lol
To get opinions on others experiences with no chill.
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).
I may send you a pm about this setup lol
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.
Messy and inefficient, way more hands on than I would have liked to have been lol
see below though to further my answer to this however this is definitely going to be added to my arsenal.of things to do so thank you
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.
I have a cube ordered as I like the longer term storage idea of it and allows me to clean the kettle the same night/day as the brew
Half filled cornies are next.
Was thinking about trying a corner as a Shank Tank style co2 generator like on brulosophy for transfer etc lol
co2 is pricey
Also going to add my entire water volumes for strike and sparge into my kettle.
bring it up to above my strike temp and pump my sparge volume into a Corney for use later in the brew. The rest will be left to cool to strike temp (or just to use if both at same temp lol)
Is this discussion about "no-chill" started to get decidedly "warm"? Or is it just me?
Started to think this myself lol
... Do you mean pressure or flow?
