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Tom Littleton
New Member
Username: Buckwheatsb
Post Number: 1
Registered: 05-2007
Posted From: 68.54.117.210
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 11:13 pm: | 
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Has anyone ever tried using an electric pump with a bucket of ice water instead of the water faucet....
any input is great |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 7088
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.57.224.220
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 11:37 pm: |
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You'll use much less water (and ice) if you first chill the wort with tap water (using either an immersion or counterflow chiller) to near the water temperature, followed by routing the wort through a sanitized immersion chiller in a bucket of water and ice if the tap water isn't cold enough, as is the case during summer in many locations.
I have heard of some people using a swimming pool as the water source rather than the tap. There are places where pool and tap water would be about the same temperature. Fortunately (for the beer anyway) I don't live in one of them. |
Tom Littleton
New Member
Username: Buckwheatsb
Post Number: 2
Registered: 05-2007
Posted From: 68.54.117.210
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 01:22 am: |
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perhaps I should've explained better...my intention was to use an immersion chiller only instead of using tap water ..to recirculate water from a bucket of ice water using a pump.... |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 7090
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.57.224.220
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 02:28 am: |
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Well, I see a number of problems. One is that you have to be careful that pieces of ice don't clog the pump. A possibility would be to use a second immersion chiller in the bucket of ice water, but this would be much less efficient without a means of stirring the ice water, just as it is if you don't stir the wort as it chills in the kettle. Most certainly it will require quite a bit of ice. |
Steve Sampson
Intermediate Member
Username: Sampsosm
Post Number: 380
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 8.8.196.87
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 03:20 am: |
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Tim,
I use my immersion chiller hooked up to a normal faucet to chil down to about 100 degrees, then I attach a Rio 1700 aquarium pump to the chiller, and recirculate ice water. This gets my temps down into the 60's relatively quickly.
This method is especially useful if you are pitching on a yeast cake, and you can't empty the boil kettle in a fermenter and let it cool down those last 10-20 degrees.
I think using the ice water from the time of flame out would be a waste because as Bill said you would use WAY too much ice. |
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