Things went great. I did a brown ale, and Mr. Bergson did a wheat ale. I can still smell the wort. Great stuff. Recipe's will be posted up later. Anyway, tonight was the maiden voyage of the wort chiller.
Run one, I have a skinnier, taller pot. The wort chiller ran off about 100 degree's fahrenheit in under 20 minutes. Great work for ten feet of 1/2" copper pipe. Run two, Mr. Bergson's pot. It is a shorter, squatter pot, the chiller didn't quite fit into the whole wort. Still, ran off over 100 degree's fahrenheit in less than a half hour.
All in all, I think if you want to run a 25 foot copper line instead of something smaller, it's just maybe a 5 minute difference. I am really impressed.
I ended up squashing the copper pipe down together (view the previous pictures a few posts down for the original look.) so that it could fit into the whole wort. I didn't take into account that the wort would be around 2 gallons of water, instead of 5 or 6. =)
Anyway, success! 2 out of 2! The yeast is still really to be determined. We split it in half and pitched it a little earlier. Cross your fingers. Here's some silly pictures of us sitting on our buckets.
Alright, so right before those pictures, I accidentally stepped on the siphon plug on my bucket. Great. It was a little over 6 gallons anyway... still, i'm a little unhappy at my oversized feet.
All in all sofar we are doing great! After this it's smooth sailing provided everything goes well. If you have any suggestions or idea's feel free to let me know.
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