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I got a question. When using a wort chiller what do you use to keep from wasting water? I cant drain it in the washing machine as its one of them modern ones that drains instantly when I tried it.
I am considering getting a 2nd coil and immersing it in ice water then letting the same water circulate between the coil in the wort and the one in the ice water.
I’m open to suggestions, advice etc, before I invest in the 2nd coil and pump.
My son, a few years back, brewed up a batch of honey mead. He was following a medieval style recipe from what I understand. Anyway, it was very different but actually pretty good tasting.
I have come to appreciate the specialty brews from local micro breweries. I am reminded of eating and drinking once, in Germany in the last century, at a monastery run restaurant that grew, made, and brewed its own food and drink. The dark beer was, as I remember it, awesome. It might be a retrospective foggy memory due to the quantity of beer drunk out of ice cold stoneware mugs, and the ambience of an old stone monks’ hostel great room with fireplaces, log tables, sheepskin covered benches, hams and sausages hanging from wooden rafters, torchlight, &c. Or, the beer might actually have been very good.
Nevertheless, here's to Irish Red.