spittybug
Well-Known Member
I have a 3 Sanke keg brew setup; HLT, mash tun and boil kettle. Straightforward. Brewing in Houston in the summer is a bear because it's so hot and the tap water is fairly useless for cooling unless you use huge quantities to get down to ~90 degrees. Well, we're building a home out in Hill country where water is scarcer and more expensive, so I'm not liking the waste involved with cooling....
I'm thinking of going no chill. After boil is done I was thinking of fitting some kind of lid on the BK and just letting it sit for a day before sending off to fermenter. My fermenter sits in a temperature controlled upright freezer but is a plastic conical (love it by the way...). I don't want to simply transfer hot wort into it and spend $ on electricity and wear on the compressor. I figure the sitting time would also allow trub to settle in the BK instead of the fermenter. I might go the extra mile and add a purge port to the lid and hit it with some CO2 to purge 02 out, but that might be overkill. Has anyone done this? What kind of lid did you create to fit on a Sanke style boil kettle? It will obviously need to be a good fit to keep bugs out - I don't want a Berliner Weiss!
I'm thinking of going no chill. After boil is done I was thinking of fitting some kind of lid on the BK and just letting it sit for a day before sending off to fermenter. My fermenter sits in a temperature controlled upright freezer but is a plastic conical (love it by the way...). I don't want to simply transfer hot wort into it and spend $ on electricity and wear on the compressor. I figure the sitting time would also allow trub to settle in the BK instead of the fermenter. I might go the extra mile and add a purge port to the lid and hit it with some CO2 to purge 02 out, but that might be overkill. Has anyone done this? What kind of lid did you create to fit on a Sanke style boil kettle? It will obviously need to be a good fit to keep bugs out - I don't want a Berliner Weiss!