11-28-2006, 09:31 PM
well, I got the IPA going late saturday night, so today would be the completion of day 3 for this brew, and it started off nice and slow, and has become very active as of last night.
Everything went great, and I got to use the immersion, which worked fantastic! I was a little worried that I was going to actually melt the plastic tubing from the copper getting hot while I put it in the pot during the boil, but it wasn't a problem. I was able to get it right down to 71 F, right where I wanted it, and got so happy I forgot to aerate it. A co worker mentioned a cool option for aeration today, taking a paddle bit normally intened for mixing cement or sheet rock mud, and just attatch that to a cordless drill, and voila! Not as kosher as a filtered air pump and aeration stone, I know, but it'll do the job I think, at least unitl I get the real deal.
So here's some pics of the immersion chiller I made.
and one of it being sanitized by putting it in during the final 15 minutes of the boil
Everything went great, and I got to use the immersion, which worked fantastic! I was a little worried that I was going to actually melt the plastic tubing from the copper getting hot while I put it in the pot during the boil, but it wasn't a problem. I was able to get it right down to 71 F, right where I wanted it, and got so happy I forgot to aerate it. A co worker mentioned a cool option for aeration today, taking a paddle bit normally intened for mixing cement or sheet rock mud, and just attatch that to a cordless drill, and voila! Not as kosher as a filtered air pump and aeration stone, I know, but it'll do the job I think, at least unitl I get the real deal.
So here's some pics of the immersion chiller I made.
and one of it being sanitized by putting it in during the final 15 minutes of the boil