Comments on: Brewing equipment made simple, The Wort Chiller http://www.brewingkb.com/blogs/8/brewing-equipment-made-simple-the-wort-chiller.html A collection of thoughts and experiences from seasoned home brewers. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:29:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nightbiker http://www.brewingkb.com/blogs/8/brewing-equipment-made-simple-the-wort-chiller.html#comment-23 Nightbiker Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:05:01 +0000 http://www.brewingkb.com/blogs/8/brewing-equipment-made-simple-the-wort-chiller.html#comment-23 I've been using a home-made immersive chiller for about 8 months now -made by a coil of copper tubing from the hardware store. All I actually did was bend the two ends down so they 'hook' over the side of my brewpot, and just expanded the coil of copper so that it ran up and down the length of the pot (the copper came in a coil, in a cardboard box, I just expanded it by pulling the coils apart a little). A single length has been working fine for my partial-grain boils (about 2.5-3 gallons of wort) -I'm working on building a larger brewery rig with 10 gallon brewpots, so will be doubling or tripleing my coil length, but I think immersive chilling is probably the best way to where speed and economy both play a role. The only cheaper way would be to immerse the pot as the article says (and I don't know about others, but I have NO intention of handling a boiling hot pot of wort in order to put the pot in an ice bath -this is a terrible chance to take with getting severely burned. I love my beer, but no beer is worth THAT! I had an old (small) pond pump that I drop into a mop-bucket full of ice and a little water (enough to cover the pump), a hose leads from the pump to one end of the chiller, the other end has a hose that drops into the mop bucket. Icewater is circulated with the pump, and my chiller is placed (unhooked to the pump) into the brewpot for the last 10 minutes of the boil (to sanitize it -though I always make sure its clean beforehand, this is a nice little piece of insurance against contamination). I’ve been using a home-made immersive chiller for about 8 months now -made by a coil of copper tubing from the hardware store. All I actually did was bend the two ends down so they ‘hook’ over the side of my brewpot, and just expanded the coil of copper so that it ran up and down the length of the pot (the copper came in a coil, in a cardboard box, I just expanded it by pulling the coils apart a little). A single length has been working fine for my partial-grain boils (about 2.5-3 gallons of wort) -I’m working on building a larger brewery rig with 10 gallon brewpots, so will be doubling or tripleing my coil length, but I think immersive chilling is probably the best way to where speed and economy both play a role. The only cheaper way would be to immerse the pot as the article says (and I don’t know about others, but I have NO intention of handling a boiling hot pot of wort in order to put the pot in an ice bath -this is a terrible chance to take with getting severely burned. I love my beer, but no beer is worth THAT!

I had an old (small) pond pump that I drop into a mop-bucket full of ice and a little water (enough to cover the pump), a hose leads from the pump to one end of the chiller, the other end has a hose that drops into the mop bucket. Icewater is circulated with the pump, and my chiller is placed (unhooked to the pump) into the brewpot for the last 10 minutes of the boil (to sanitize it -though I always make sure its clean beforehand, this is a nice little piece of insurance against contamination).

]]> By: vinyalwhl http://www.brewingkb.com/blogs/8/brewing-equipment-made-simple-the-wort-chiller.html#comment-2 vinyalwhl Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:08:23 +0000 http://www.brewingkb.com/blogs/8/brewing-equipment-made-simple-the-wort-chiller.html#comment-2 http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=50367-712-DWC-00 For a slightly "easier" modification, you can use this dishwasher connector to connect to your faucet, some tubing, and a 25 cents clamp to connect the tubing to the chiller. This method works for me, because i dont like dealing with compression fittings. http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=50367-712-DWC-00

For a slightly “easier” modification, you can use this dishwasher connector to connect to your faucet, some tubing, and a 25 cents clamp to connect the tubing to the chiller. This method works for me, because i dont like dealing with compression fittings.

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