Chilling MashPot...

[slcmorro]

Woo! My thread has turned into a 'to hydrate or not clone'. Where's Stu when you need him?

 

[Camo6]

Ssshhhh, you really wanna wake him?

 

[Rowy]

So, you put the ice directly in the brew? or you used it to chill the vessel?

Neither......shoves it up his arse and coverts it to steam out his mouth......what do you reckon?

 

[Cocko]

Neither......shoves it up his arse and coverts it to steam out his mouth......what do you reckon?

Wow, was offering some help.

Are you OK Rowy?

You seem a little aggressive tonight?

 

[carniebrew]

If you don't want to add ice directly to your pot, you could freeze some 1.25 litre coke bottles (or some such) full of water, spray them liberally with/dunk them in starsan and put 'em directly into your wort to chill. Ghetto immersion chiller...and re-usable too.

Might be better if you did this once the wort was cooled a bit though, not sure how the plastic would go in really hot wort. Although I think the melting point of PET is something like 250C...

 

[Droopy Brew]

Ok so what is the risk of using store bought ice? If I use untreated tap water for my top up I don't see that ice would be any worse and being frozen I would think it was less hospitable for infectious bugs than room temp tap water.

Anyone got any clear evidence or sound reasoning why this is bad practice?

 

[Northkit]

Anyone tried the ice and salt trick? Was going to give that a blast on the next brew.

http://www.wikihow.com/Chill-a-Drink-Quickly

 

[Droopy Brew]

An ice/salt slurry will be the quickest way to strip heat for sure- can get a hot stubbie down to drinking temp in about 10 minutes.

However I can see the folly in adding direct to the wort as a top up :unsure:

 

[hsb]

<snip> Although I think the melting point of PET is something like 250C...

Been there, done that! PET goes soggy/shrinks if you try to put recently boiled Wort into it for a starter. Result is 1L PET bottle ends up looking like a 500ml raisin.
So maybe not so good for chilling near boiling wort, unless you want gently exploding ice PETS.

Get a bloody cube? h34r:
http://www.peopleinplastic.com.au/

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

19L pot from Big W.

I just threw it in the bath. The missus will have a go at me for using household stuff for brewing, but meh. Funny, she doesn't seem to complain when the beer is flowing...

They always whinge about the brewing. Unless they're drinking.

 

[lukasfab]

ATM I always brew over gravity beer and top up with boiled water
do you guys top up with cold water straight from the tap?

sorry bit OT

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

I do. I know some don't but I've not had an issue when I've done it. Having said that, I'll always rehydrate to make sure the yeast is kicking strong when I do. Probably paranoia.

 

[lukasfab]

well that would make it easier

will try topping up from the tap next time