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The 1 hour ride to and from work is a blast with the BN!

All that aside, I've been doing a lot of thinking about Jamil's Whirlpool Immersion chiller.
Ok, so I don't have a fancy setup... yet... and really don't want to set up a pump. I know the "open the pot and stir" method is just asking for trouble, but has anyone worked out something to get a whirlpool in the kettle without a pump?

I'm thinking of one of those drill-powered paint stirrers. I'm sure you'd want to keep it on low so it just give a slow motion, but wouldn't something like this work?

I don't have a pump either. I whirlpool by stirring with my wort chiller. You would be amazed at how quickly that drops your temperature. A drill powered stirrer would whip too much air into the wort before it got cool. You would have awful oxidation problems.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

BugeaterBrewing wrote:I don't have a pump either. I whirlpool by stirring with my wort chiller.

What do you mean by this?

I've tried that, but my chiller is pretty big wrt my kettle, and I can't get much of a stirring motion out of it.
About the areation, I was thinking of a variable speed drill, with a low gear. More of a gentle stirring action.

Plus, I'm a bit of a science geek/gadget head, so I may have to try to get something rigged up anyway... in the name of science...

So are you saying you stir the wort with the immersion chiller? I can't imagine there would be much whirlpooling going on at that point...

I think he means that he wiggles it just a little bit....
or he uses it as a spoon to stir the work thereby bettering his cooling efficiency.
BUB

My brew kettle is wide enough and my wort chiller narrow enough that I can get a good stir going in there. My old turkey cooker pot didn't have enough room to do much.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company