Just Chillin

[Partridge9]

Brewers - How do you cool you wort?
I have tried a few methods and I'm back to Immersion Chilling ... but getting from 24C to 19C is cruel.

What do you do?

[Qs]

I use immersion, thankfully at this time of year getting down to 19C is handy enough. Got to 17 handily today, and down to 14 eventually.

[imark]

I use an undercounter chiller inline with the tap water for those last few degrees. Works great.

[Fal]

 I use the plastic spoon I got years ago on my drill and an immersion chiller 24 to 18 is a pain but not too bad. Plus the wort is oxygenated at the same time

[Partridge9]

I use the plastic spoon I got years ago on my drill and an immersion chiller 24 to 18 is a pain but not too bad. Plus the wort is oxygenated at the same time

Thats a great idea !

[mick02]

I use the plastic spoon I got years ago on my drill and an immersion chiller 24 to 18 is a pain but not too bad. Plus the wort is oxygenated at the same time

Thats a great idea !

I use a counter flow chiller directly into my fermenter. 95% of the time it goes into the fermenter between 17C - 22C depending on the temp of the ground water. If I'm doing a lager I try to push my water through an immersion chiller sitting in an ice bath and then through my counter flow. It usually works quite well.

[Shanna]

Double immersion chiller with splitter in the incoming water source so that its cold water entering both chillers. From tomorrow I will be trying using a pump from a bucket of ice chilled water. Previously I just pumped from an external water butt & while it saved water depending on the temperature outside it would be slow to get it to drop from 30C to 20C. Going forward I will add 10 picnic cooler blocks to a bucket of water & pump that through to.chill the last 10C. I expect that will.work really well. Keep an eye out in lidl or Aldi as they sell the blocks @various times through the year. I used to use the undercounter beer chiller but I found the piping too small for the immersion chiller. It was effectively going from garden hose 1/2" to beer line in to the chiller, beer line from the chiller to 10ml copper pipes. I found it was very slow & made the poor water pressure I had even worse.

Shanna

[Simon_]

Grainfather comes with a counter flow chiller so there'll be alot of them.

Every so often my hop filter falls off, circulation pipe plugs up and I end up leaving it to chill outside overnight. Doesn't seem to affect the end result

Either way fermentation fridge used to get it to pitching temp

[Pheeel]

Every so often my hop filter falls off, circulation pipe plugs up and I end up leaving it to chill outside overnight. Doesn't seem to affect the end result

Even if you turn the hop filter around? I've not had it happen in years!

[Pheeel]

Counter flow is the only way to do it! Waiting for immersion is a pain in the hole