Kilr Kowalski
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I just started reading the forum after about 7 years and see a whole bunch of people talking about getting a 2nd CFC or ice bath to get down to pitching temperatures.
Most of the pics shown have two pumps in them.
I can’t understand why these brewers aren’t recirculating the cooler wert back into the Brew kettle ready to be cooled by the CFC again.
I mean I use Celsius and so I don’t understand everyone’s groundwater temperatures - maybe they are higher than the pitching temps? Maybe they have limited cool water?
I use the CFC wert lumen to return to my BK and run rainwater at 16-18 degrees C(18 in summer) from a 3000L tank, (returning to the tank) in summer at 35C in Melbourne. Takes 15 minutes to get my BK temp to 18C, where I switch outflow to the fermenter.
This uses 2 pumps 1 CFC and stores about 1-2 degrees C in my Rainwater which is gone by the next morning.
Most of the pics shown have two pumps in them.
I can’t understand why these brewers aren’t recirculating the cooler wert back into the Brew kettle ready to be cooled by the CFC again.
I mean I use Celsius and so I don’t understand everyone’s groundwater temperatures - maybe they are higher than the pitching temps? Maybe they have limited cool water?
I use the CFC wert lumen to return to my BK and run rainwater at 16-18 degrees C(18 in summer) from a 3000L tank, (returning to the tank) in summer at 35C in Melbourne. Takes 15 minutes to get my BK temp to 18C, where I switch outflow to the fermenter.
This uses 2 pumps 1 CFC and stores about 1-2 degrees C in my Rainwater which is gone by the next morning.