Chilling your wort

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jward
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Re: Chilling your wort

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maltbarley wrote:Try a water bath in a cooler with frozen water bottles to keep it cool.
This can work very well. Like Tim says use frozen bottles though and not plain ice cubes. Ice cubes melt too quickly and can drop the the temp too fast. Yeast do not like fast temp drops. The bottles are slower and last longer.
maltbarley wrote:A Saison could ferment in hell and still be to style.
Ah, nothing beats a warm Saison after a long day in the suit of flames.....
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Re: Chilling your wort

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maltbarley wrote:Try a water bath in a cooler with frozen water bottles to keep it cool. As far as warm weather styles, think Belgian. A Saison could ferment in hell and still be to style.

Take a look at this chart from White Labs: http://www.whitelabs.com/beer/belgianchart.pdf

Great tip! That'd be perfect pretty much all year round here. Thanks a million!
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