Wort Chiller Pre-Chiller -- Bonus Tasting w/ Head & Lace!!!!

Your wort chiller is only going to cool your wort to your tap water, garden hose temperature. For some folks, perhaps especially those of us in hot climates, a wort chiller isn't going to be good enough. I found a gadget on sale the other day that I hope is going to do the job, a wort chiller pre-chiller.

Plus a taste testing with lots of head & lace. ;-)

More bonus footage at the very end!!!

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[bmeyer44]

bwaaaaa tea!! tea! whoda thunk it!! LOL

[steeljan]

@bmeyer44 Did you watch til the very end to see the squirrel? Bonus squirrel sighting, LOL!!! Cheers!

[hoppinglion01]

Rock on SJ! I spewed coffee out of my nose. LOL Let me kno how the prechiller works. There is also a school of thought that says to run the wort through the chiller that is in the ice bath, but treat the ice bath like an icecream maker and add salt to the water. That lets the wter get below freezing hile still remaining a liquid. I have never tried it, just something I read. Cheers.

[steeljan]

@hoppinglion01 LOL, snicker snicker. Thanks for the tip on adding salt to the ice slurry. Ope08 recommended this too (great minds think alike). So I'll sure be doing this when I use it.  Thanks.

[g0fPrincipals]

loved the lipton thing. was so hilarious 

[steeljan]

@g0fPrincipals Head & lace, head & lace, LOL!!

[bmeyer44]

maybe we should put your squirrel in terpichorean kids yacht? LOL

[OPE08]

@steeljan - I used 2" foam, I Thought about using the 5/8th rigid as the outer skin over 1" foam, but the 2" was easier...

[steeljan]

@OPE08 Thanks, great idea, like when ya make homemade ice cream, put salt in the slurry. Yeah, I have to beef-up my ferm chiller with thicker styrofoam, only using 5/8ths foamboard insulation right now. It will hold the temp of a fermenter that I put in it, but it really can't get that mass of wort to chill down any farther. Yeah, I'm doing the same, 2 gallon ice bottles, change in the morning and late afternoon.

[OPE08]

I didn't read all the comments Jan, but you might think about dumping some salt-water in with your ice, a salty ice slurry will be extra cold.

I generally pour, roughly, the wort into a ferment bucket once it gets below 80, it drops a few degrees doing that alone and it aerates a bit.

My Ferment chiller works well, I use frozen 1gal water bottles, but even then I have to change them twice a day during summer. I can easily maintain 66-68 degrees, even with two fermenters in there