One of the best ways to improve the quality of your homebrewed beer is to rapid chill the wort to yeast-pitching temperatures. In this video, Northern Brewer shows you how to do just that by using one of our immersion wort chillers.
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Brewing Better Beer: Use an Immersion Wort Chiller
The water bill will be high. You will be able to buy 12 packs of beer with the amount of water you just wasted
no phone support with northern brewer. i guess they are to busy at any rate i dropped them after 20 years and went to more beer
Is it unwise to use both a wort chiller and a sink full of ice?
Clear beer is out! Hazy is in…
Very informative, thanks – did my first ever gallon of wort yesterday and was looking into better/quicker ways to cool it. Thanks. Subscribed.
If let cool passively there will be a temperature window where the bacteria can form colonies and reform the (immediate at first) surrounding to their liking (release toxins that mostly/only they tolerate best. That would be a bit of a head start for bacteria. If you get the wort to the right temperature for yeast quickly and pitch some billions of yeast cells in there, the yeast will have a head start and the bacteria will be on very slow gear or dormant because of the stress from the chemicals yeast is starting to release already (not only ethanol but the coctail as a whole). The word sterilize is wrong in this context of course. For example in mushroom growing hobby or medicine, people learn that even 130 degrees for 30 minutes (isolated environment of course) is only getting you a high sterility class, that would be medically usable, where only endospores of slow growing bacteria and prions remain. Something like 25 kilograys of gamma radiation is used to sterilize syringes inside the plastic bags they are in. – now these are sterile. Open up a (near) sterile cultivation medium petri dish in an average room for a few seconds and stuff starts growing on it afterwards.
This is really helpful info. Been trying to make it work with home brewing some beer. Found your video on this article – https://freshnss.com/best-wort-chiller-reviews/ – and it's definitely making a difference in terms of how to use an immersion wort chiller the right way. Cheers
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good job cross threading the faucet fitting
So if cooling the wort as fast as possible then with a 5 gallon batch and you typically are only boiling 2 1/2 gallons and then after cooling add the remaining water to make your 5 gallons, why not after boiling then add your other 2 1/2 gallons of water say at 70 degrees or so then add the wort chiller to bring it to your pitch temperature?
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there's no point using it for the purpose of avoiding contamination, as soon the wort get chill then the bacteria will start to entering the wort because with that chiller you can't close the kettle with lid. any thought?
would it help if you did the ice bath while using the chiller?
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What If one added frozen blocks of ice to cool down the wort to assist with the cooling. Sar-Sea.
Great video. Few stop to explain the details of this.
Does the heat from the copper chiller ever melt the tubing connected at the top when you're sanitizing?
Does it matter whether the cold water enters from the top or bottom of the coil?
I didn't really see the point in a wort chiller until I actually tried to cool 15L of wort in a sink! 😛
According to Palmer, removing chill haze also stabilises the beer so it'll keep for longer, another advantage to active chilling!
I had a hard time cooling it last time, I see now it was because I lifted the wort chiller out too soon, thanks guys!
Thank you I have been saying the DMS increases the longer you whirlpool!!