Wort Chiller Types
All home brewers remember their first brew. From the boiling of the wort to cracking open your very first home brewed perfection. Okay, okay, your first brew was probably not perfection but it was yours and definitely not some mass produced, watered down version of beer. If you are anything like me, you purchased a kit and started in your kitchen with some extract and hops. After the boil you ever so carefully placed your pot of dreams in your kitchen sink, bath tub, or plastic bin filled with ice water in a futile attempt to quickly cool the wort down to yeast pitching temperature. The question remains, why did my first few batches turn out not as expected? As a new brewer, it could be any one of a number of reasons, but more than likely it is some type of bacteria. Think of it like this, you slave over your beer and in the process little communist bacteria sneak in and contaminate your wort stealing your dreams of fermented freedom. The bacteria invade your wort while yo