Immersion chiller - where to use

[Chrissyr63]

Hi all,

so I made an immersion chiller from 10mm copper coil and was to use it first time tomorrow. Then I saw this on the Art of Brewing site about their chiller (sorry for looking!) -

Cools wort down to yeast pitching temperature from boiling point in a matter of minutes. This unit fits into a standard 5 gallon fermentation bin. The forced cooling also has the further advantage of producing a "cold break" where more protein is precipitated leading to a cleaner taste in the finished beer. Please note it is important to have run off the wort via a BRUPAKS HOP STRAINER before using this wort chiller otherwise you will put all the proteins, coagulated during the "hot break", back into solution.

My bold by the way - I thought you put the chiller in the boil for the last 10 mins and then used there to chill the wort. This seems to suggest you drain off and then transfer the chiller to the final FV. Which is best?

Chris

[Belter]

You could I either but to make sanitising easier you do as you've suggested and put it in ten mins before the end of the boil

[Fil]

Please note it is important to have run off the wort via a BRUPAKS HOP STRAINER before using this wort chiller otherwise you will put all the proteins, coagulated during the "hot break", back into solution.

News to me, when using an IC i too dropped it in for the last 10-15mins of the boil to sanitise without any consideration of the hot break in my kettle. which is the norm akaik, ive not come across any reference to re-dissolving hot break thru chilling before ?? and the last pint out of my cornys has always been crystal clear



now i cfc and deposit cold break into the fv..