5 gallon batch? If your kettle will fit in the sink give it a nice ice bath. I keep the lid off until the temp gets under 140 degrees. Then I put the lid on, soak a towel in the ice cold water and drape it over the top. I can usually chill down to pitching temp within 45 minutes.
Once you get it down to 100F or so you can drop frozen sanitized plastic bottles in to drop the wort into the 60’s. Of course I use an immersion chiller to get it to 100 first, but just placing the kettle in the bath tub full of cold water and giving it a stir periodically will work in a pinch.
Also, I like to use the 16oz eco-type water bottles whose labels come off easily without a bunch of adhesive remaining on the bottles. Aquafina is my preferred brand but it my be different in your neck of the woods. 
I have a double sink that is mounted under the counter. If you have this layout you can do what I do. I close the drain on one side and place the kettle in it. Then I put my faucet in the basin facing the kettle and turn the cold water on. The water fills the basin and flows over to the other side to drain. Kind of works like an immersion chiller in reverse. I get 3 gallons down to pitching temp in 30-40 minutes.
This is a very nice recipe. I brewed it several times as sold, and then switched it up with Irish ale yeast. I find it comes out a bit like smithwicks…nice roast. 65-66f worked really well for me, and finished up dry around 1.009. Good luck!
Just a word of caution if you go this route. I used to do this with my old sink because the divider between the basins was lower than the outer rim, allowing the water to flow into the other basin and drain out. Then I had a nice new stainless double sink installed and didn’t notice that the divider was the same height as the outer rim of the sink. Uh oh! The one basin filled up and water started seeping out between the sink and countertop in addition to draining into the other basin, flooding my cabinets underneath. That’s when I decided to buy an immersion chiller. ;D
Okay guys, next question- preferred sanitizing agent? I’ve been thumbing through “How to Brew” and I think I have a good handle on the different methods and the various cleansers, but what is your personal favorite? Have you ever had one impart an off flavor to your beer, and if so, do you know why (something you did, or something that is characteristic of the cleaner)?
Star san. Easy
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I’ll be the one against the grain here. I use OneStep. It’s easy, cheap and has never failed me. I’ve never used Star San and have thought about trying, but I figure there’s no reason to fix something that isn’t broke.
Star san. Make a 5 gallon bucket full with distilled or ro water, keep the lid on, dip only clean items, and as long as the pH is below 3(i think?) it will retain it’s magic which in my experience can be months. Also fill a spray bottle for the stuff you can’t dip.It is no-rinse, biodegradable, environmentally- friendly, and correct me if I’m wrong- the residue/foam is a yeast nutrient. I brew 199 gallons a year on one 8 ounce bottle.
Star San for me. Used to use iodophor but didn’t like the way it stains my equipment (and counter tops).
Frank, I felt the same way about One step until it did fail me. Once I went to Oxiclean/PBW/Iodophor/StarSan I realized how superior they were to One Step. I know you have a lot of the stuff to work through, but once you do, I encourage you to try some of the other ones.
Star San for me as well. I’m new to brewing but everyone I have talked to pointed me to Star San.
It is very easy to make a wort chiller. The guy at home depot had a good time showing me around finding the right supplies. But he didn’t know that you need to treat copper before you drop it in boiling wort, so I drank some sort of a residue that boiled off it. Sorry I’m not more helpful on chemistry.
Also don’t forget to take your first hydrometer reading before you pitch the yeast, to get your Original Gravity (OG) i made that mistake on my first batch.
I probably have 4 pounds of it left lol. I do use oxyclean to wash my equipment with… It does very well. Then I use the OneStep before use to sanitize. I have never heard a bad thing about StarSan, so I’ll eventually get to it. But what does make me worried about it is when people talk about infection in their beer. I have yet (knock on wood) to have one while using OneStep, but I am also very careful with what I am doing too.
Maybe this is a dumb question but is there any oxidation risk from the residue from a no-rinse, oxygen-based sanitizer?
Btw star san has a foaming agent so, in my always-handy spray bottle, it makes a good leak detector in the kegger.