Can you add cold water to your wort if you made up 3-4 litres short instead of using a wort chiller ?
I bet that worked pretty bloody well !I do things differently now, but I used to get my wort temp down by throwing in a couple of frozen bottles of water ( still in the bottles and sanitised of course). I also don't worry too much about that last 5-10 degrees. I just get it in the FV then wait to pitch the yeast until it naturally gets down to my target temp.
Previous good'uns: Epiphany Triple, Fisherman stout, Hefeweizen, NEIPA, BIPA x 5, Belgian IPA, RIS, Zombie Dust, Munich dunkle, dark mild, Gales Festival Mild (GW clone), RyeIPA, NEDIPA, Bitter, Perry and cider from scratch, Hobgob clone, DIYDog Dogma, Mild, ginger beerThe ice thing works very well, because ice has a high latent heat. In fact, I worked out an equation to tell you exactly what temperature you need to get down before chucking in your ice in order to get your desired volume and pitching temperature exactly: :https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/how-to-get-to-pitching-temperature-using-ice.66198/
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