How to Cool the Wort for Brewing English Mild Beer

"Hi, my name is Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment, we're going to chill our wart and get it ready to put our yeast into. To do this, we first going to take our wart and put it into our sink. Next, we are going to take our drain plug and put it in there, and start flowing cold water. In the gelling process, we are trying to drop the temperature of the wart as fast as we can. To encourage something called "Cold Break" which would precipitate proteins and also get the wart to a temperature to which we can mix in our yeast as quickly as we can; so the yeast has the best chance of establishing itself has the dominant micro in the wart. While I'm doing this, I'm stirring the water around the pot in order to break up the boundary layer that's forming of hot water. Also you can kind of give the pot a little stir. And that breaks up the boundary layer on the inside so this will encourage faster cooling. While you're waiting for your wart to chill, you may want to get a head start on the next step which is yeast preparation. Since we put in Shivving Hops, we're going to need to take those out before we mix them with our water. So we are going to take our tongs and go put them in our Sana Sensation Solution so they would nice and clean before we need to use them. While we're waiting for it to cool, we are going to start filling our bucket up with some nice cold water. Now, with these buckets, this tip of it represents the half way mark or the five gallon mark. So we are going to start filling it to roughly 2 1/2 gallons and then we are going to top off with the wart, and then whatever else we need to get just above 5 1/2 gallons. So, grab your water and start pouring filling it up. You're going to want to fill your airlock half up with sanitizing solution or water. This is going to help prevent any micros or air from getting in and also allow the carbon dioxide to escape. Now with our freshly sanitized tongs, we can go in and take out our hops sack. Let it drip for a minute our so. You really don't want to try to introduce any kind of bacteria at his point because the yeast and the wart if very vulnerable. After a minute or so, let it get drained. Just going to throw that in the garbage can. The hot kettle will heat up your water pretty quickly. So, once it gotten to a pretty warm temperature, you are going to want to drain it. And we're going to fill it up and add some ice next time. Now that we filled up the sink again with a nice cold batch of water, we're going to make it even colder by adding a whole bunch of ice from our refrigerator. Then we're going to continue to swirl the water around it, so it gets nice and cold. Breaks up the hop right away. After a half an hour or so, you should be able to take out your pot. Hold your hand here, if it doesn't feel hot at all, you're in good shape. If it still is pretty hot, you probably burn your arm too, let sit in this cold water for a while longer."