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Offline purduekenn

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Blue Water after cleaning chiller
« on: September 10, 2020, 07:52:53 am »
Cleaned my hydra wort chiller for my next brew day. Soaked it for several hours in a hot PBW soak. Was this calcium sulfite?
« Last Edit: September 10, 2020, 08:00:02 am by purduekenn »

Offline roger

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Re: Blue Water after cleaning chiller
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2020, 09:09:00 am »
Is your cooling coil made of copper? Looks like a chemical reaction with copper. That's likely what caused it.
Roger

Offline purduekenn

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Re: Blue Water after cleaning chiller
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2020, 09:38:38 am »
Good point yes a copper wort chiller. That's the first time I have ever had blue water after cleaning my chiller. I noticed the chiller had a some brownish scum on the chiller before cleaning it yesterday. The PBW cleaned it well.

Offline kpfoleyjr

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Re: Blue Water after cleaning chiller
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2020, 03:56:46 pm »
Copper sulphate is blue, if I remember from my chemistry class correctly.


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Re: Blue Water after cleaning chiller
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2020, 04:39:30 pm »
What you are seeing is sulfated copper.  Copper is the reason why blue crabs are blue.
« Last Edit: September 11, 2020, 05:18:01 am by Saccharomyces »

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Re: Blue Water after cleaning chiller
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2020, 05:02:08 pm »
What you are seeing is sulfated copper.  Copper is the reason why blue craps are blue.

Never had a blue crap.  But after eating beets it's bright red!