Anyway, in the past when I have done Extract Brews, I have not had to worry too much about bring the temp down quickly since this was almost already done for me as I boiled 2.5 gallons and added this to already cold water thus the temp was rapidly brought down.
With an AG brew I obviously need to be more concerned with bringing my temps down quickly. I will be ordering an imerssion chiller fairly soon (or I may try and convince our local plumbers to make me one!) however being that the outside tap is quite leaky this means that the chiller isn't going to be all that effective
Until I have managed to fix the tap, would giving my wort a cold bath/shower be effective? I have a Better Bottle fermenter meaning that this can be sealed completely (stopping anything getting in while cooling). I could also throw in a coule of frozen PET bottles to make the water colder.
The one advantage is that the neighbours won't see me 'wasting' water during our hose pipe ban
If the transfer was sufficient I suppose the water might be hot enough to have a bath in 
Anyway, would this be a suitable temporary method of cooling?
