{"id":7279,"date":"2005-05-10T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/10\/7279\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:10","slug":"7279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/10\/7279\/","title":{"rendered":"!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yay! I finally picked up a wort chiller… I was planning on making one, but the materials would have cost around $18 – $20, and if I screwed up the bending of the tube and crimped it, I’d be out around $16 of that cost. This one, pre-made from Cap ‘n’ Cork<\/a> near my house was $36.50. Not bad, and it saves me the hassle of making one.<\/p>\n

These devices are typically hooked up to a cold water supply, then you submerge the coil in hot wort (sugary stuff for fermenting into beer) and it chills it. Yeah, the price is a little high, but I’d been spending around US$6\/batch on ice. So as long as this works out well, it should pay for itself in around six uses.<\/p>\n

With any luck I’ll rack this current batch of extra-strong stuff to the new carboy I picked up today. Then it’ll get parked in the basement for a good month and a half to two months of bulk aging. While this is aging I’ll make up another batch of the golden ale (beer #3)<\/a> that people seemed to rather like. I personally thought it was great, too…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click for huuuuuuge! Yay! I finally picked up a wort chiller… I was planning on making one, but the materials would have cost around $18 – $20, and if I screwed up the bending of the tube and crimped it, I’d be out around $16 of that cost. This one, pre-made from Cap ‘n’ Cork\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-beer","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14350,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions\/14350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}