Satisfaction guaranteed. Home Plate and Counterflow Wort Chillers Plate and Counterflow Wort Chillers Counterflow chillers are a tube-inside-a-tube design and work by running hot wort from the boil kettle through the inner tube while cold water flows in the opposite direction through the outer tube. View all Wort Chillers. The icon is black and white, linear flat, vector, pixel perfect, minimal, suitable for web and print.
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Why did you choose this? MoreFlavor Store. I bought this because I just upgraded to 10 gallon brewery from a 5 gallon brewery and I used an immersion chiller before. I just hope that I can final a way to use this counterflow chiller with an ice bath. Brandon Barnett on Apr 9, Brewery Build Brett C on Dec 3, Carlin Hebert on Jan 29, I would be glad to share photos.
I know this sounds confusing. It was kind of a pain but it is solid now. You just need to run a PBW or cleaner thru to clean the inside of the copper before you use it. I like using the high temp tubing instead, much easier and no issue of flux etc. OD of the copper tube is Questions For Similar Products. Review More Purchases My Posts.
Rated 3 out of 5. I will say, yes ok, the chiller works but is very inefficient. I thought the tubing would be flattened or something to increase the efficiency. Either way, this could be improved by just making the inner tubing diameter smaller. September 29, Wes N.
Purchased 2 months ago. Rated 4 out of 5. Great chiller. Maintenance is important. I purchased one of these back in and was extremely impressed with the performance. My HERMS system allows pumping the wort in a recycle mode, so I was able to get the wort very cool rather quickly with this unit. I also designed a recirculating coolant system that sprays used cooling water over ice to keep the cold side very cold. After a few years, I accidentally got a slug of hop debris into the cooler due to a failed screen on my recirc pump suction pickup, and the hot side inner tube plugged off during the chill cycle.
It was very difficult to clean, because I let it sit too long, and possibly due to the convoluted inner tubing. If this chiller is plugged with debris in the inside tube, I recommend trying immediately to clear it by any means necessary. Possibly compressed air would work. After getting it cleaned, it worked great for years, until I neglected to drain the cold side fully before storing it for an extended period in cold temperatures.
Unfortunately that was too much for it to survive. I would recommend fully draining the unit, possibly by blowing it out with compressed air, or storing only in areas that won't get to freezing temperatures in the winter. I had it mounted vertically, and assumed it would adequately drain by gravity, but it didn't. March 29, Rated 5 out of 5. Best counterflow chiller out there. Best counter-flow chiller you can buy.
These items want to hold a curl and it will be impossible to get them completely straight. However, the straighter you can make them, the easier the next step will be. Above, you can see a picture of this step. Squirt an ounce or so of the dishwashing liquid into one end of the garden hose. If the soap is really thick, add a little water as well. The next step is to shape the cooler. I recommend taking the time to do it neatly. Commercial chillers are arranged in a nice, neat, stacked coil for a reason.
First of all, it looks nicer. Second, it ensures a trouble free gravity drain. A sloppy coil will result in some parts of the tube being higher than others as the fluid travels around the loop.
This will cause fluid to be trapped in the coil when the resistance of its weight exceeds the weight of the fluid behind it. It may be a small amount of fluid, but it is waste none the less. In addition, there is the potential for contamination associated with poor drainage of wort and water when cleaning the unit. An empty corny keg is the perfect size to use as the form. Place it near one end of the hose and begin wrapping it around the keg in a spooling fashion.
The curve of the keg is not so severe that it will readily cause kinking of the copper tubing, and the hose will act as a sort of protective sleeve during this step, but proceed with care just in case. Hold on to the end of the copper tube to keep it from sliding into the hose and out of reach.
When finished, simply slide the keg out of the middle of the coil. Once this is done, the fittings can be slid into place over the ends of the copper tubing, and into the ends of the hose. A bit of liquid soap and some elbow grease will be required to get the end of the fitting tee side into the end of the hose.
Once this is done, position and tighten the clamp. See the photo above. Up until now there was no top or bottom to the unit. Be mindful of your flow pattern now, as you attach the hose ends. The wort will flow via gravity from the top copper tubing access to the bottom one. The water must flow in the opposite direction. Thus the female hose fitting must be at the bottom and the male fitting at the top. The assembly is now complete. It is hooked up to a sink or a garden hose and cold water is run through the coil to cool the wort.
Its low cost makes the immersion chiller great for homebrewers just starting out, and most applications do not require you to purchase a pump, so it is perfect for home brewers who do not wish to purchase many pieces of equipment.
They can also be easily cleaned and sanitized, as the outer surface of the coil is the only part that comes into contact with the wort. That said, immersion chillers do have their limitations. Because they only cool the wort that is touching the coils, you may need to stir your wort using a sanitized spoon or purchase a pump and a whirlpool arm in order to keep the wort moving and introduce as much surface area as possible to the cooling coils.
Depending on the length of your coils, it may be difficult to efficiently chill larger batch sizes using your immersion chiller. A counterflow chiller features a coil within a coil. The hot wort is pumped through the inner coil in one direction while cold water flows through the outer coil in the other direction to cool it.
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