How do you get to pitching temp?

[kbenton00]

A couple of bags of ice in a cooler with some water and the circulate that through my chiller using a sump pump. Cools down to @68 in 20 minutes or so. Saves on water. Being in California this helps the water bill

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[braukasper]

I have a 200 ft deep well. With my recirculating immersion chiller I get down to 60 in 10 - 15 mins

[Jon]

Well, today I chilled down to about 90* with my CFC (that came with the Grainfather), then put it in my wine fridge to cool down...because my cold tap water was about 80* today.

I'm thinking that I'm going to use my old immersion chiller as a pre-chiller, running my cold tap water through it sitting in a bucket of ice water before running it through the CFC. Doing that while having both the wort coming out slowly and the tap water moving through slowly ought to let me get the wort chilled down relatively quickly...or at least get down to pitching temps without waiting for the wort to sloooowly cool down in my wine fridge.

Alternatively, I might go back to no-chill brewing...at least for some styles.

[bpgreen]

Reading through these, it's pretty easy to tell who lives somewhere where water is scarce.