Take 2 liters off your recipe and add 2kg of clean ice to your wort.
So is this an option if you say boiled the water made an allowance of 2 litres less..
Chilled to say 30 through the plate chiller I wonder how much 2 litres of ice would reduce 23 litres of Wort!
Would this create other issues of contamination if you boiled the water prior to freezing !
Manticle you are right re trying to reduce and re-use as much as possible water has to be key.
Beernut.................. us poor bastards in S.A with the temps we get these days you just had to do it!..make us as jealous as hell... "
with a cool breeze blowing through the workshop @ 18- 20 degrees"... You have solved it!!! , we all have to move to Tassie!!.......Lucky *******!
My good mate runs an Aquarium business has offered to lend me a chiller to see if that works, so I am going to see how long it takes to chill 150 litres of water which he tells me they do pretty quick
(Spec says 500 litres down 15 degrees per hour) and see what temp I can get the starting water to ...
This way I will get another coke syrup container ($25) and recirculate into one to get the temp down then pump through the plate chiller into the second that way I can keep 100% of the water for my next Brew and Repeat. This will cost nothing to try as I have all the gear already and I like the idea of saving the water!
The other solution is the Screwy option.
Woody