I started using ice-water for IC chilling several months ago. I love it, but was always running to the store to grab a bag of ice on brew day and spending another $4 per batch or so.
After repeatedly telling myself, "You need to strart collecting ice from the freezer ice-maker instead of buying this crap ," I finally wised up and worked this into my daily routine.
Every morning after I start the coffee brewing, I dump the contents of the ice maker tray into a bucket that I keep in the chest freezer in the garage. It takes all of 30 seconds and since I attached it to something I do everyday, it makes it easier to remember. I also have some disposable tupperware containers that I fill up and freeze into larger blocks of ice. Those are getting refilled every other day.
I just started doing this on Monday of this week and I think I already have about 20# of ice in that bucket. I brew every two weeks, so this should give me WAY more ice than I really need.
Not a monumental thing to share I suppose, but $4 savings per batch is pretty significant when you consider that the actual beer ingredients for a batch run me about $20 to $25. $4 for ice on top of that is pretty significant.
After repeatedly telling myself, "You need to strart collecting ice from the freezer ice-maker instead of buying this crap ," I finally wised up and worked this into my daily routine.
Every morning after I start the coffee brewing, I dump the contents of the ice maker tray into a bucket that I keep in the chest freezer in the garage. It takes all of 30 seconds and since I attached it to something I do everyday, it makes it easier to remember. I also have some disposable tupperware containers that I fill up and freeze into larger blocks of ice. Those are getting refilled every other day.
I just started doing this on Monday of this week and I think I already have about 20# of ice in that bucket. I brew every two weeks, so this should give me WAY more ice than I really need.
Not a monumental thing to share I suppose, but $4 savings per batch is pretty significant when you consider that the actual beer ingredients for a batch run me about $20 to $25. $4 for ice on top of that is pretty significant.