Cooling your wort quickly after the boil has a number of benefits. While the obvious among those is being able to pitch your yeast quickly into wort that’s the proper temperature, there are in fact others to consider. By cooling wort quickly with an immersion chiller, or other piece of hardware, you reduce the risk […]
Is An Immersion Wort Chiller Necessary
Let’s get something straight. I’m cheap! Who needs an immersion wort chiller when you can easily place your kettle in an ice bath, and have cooled wort within an hour. Then I had an epiphany! How much was my time worth? If it was taking me an hour to get my wort cooled to under […]