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silverspoons
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Location: Webster NY
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Built a counterflow chiller this past weekend. 21 feet long with 3/8's copper tubing inside 1/2" ID hose. Coiled it around a paint can, about 7 revolutions. Just ran a test of 5 gal of boiling water. Chill water from tap at 46 degrees. Wort flow by gravity. Opened up the kettle 100% . The boiling wort came out at first at 52 degrees, adjusted the flow of the chilling water to have cooled "wort" at 72 degrees. Took 8 minutes to run the 5 gallons through. Total cost about $45. Very happy!
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Grandequeso
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Location: Jacksonville, Fl
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I'm jealous of ya'll with your 40 sum odd degree faucet temp. The water comes out of my faucet around 74+ deg. The coldest I could get my wort last time I tried was 85 deg, and that was running the wort really slow. This weekend I'm going to try and use my boil kettle's herms coil as a pre chiller. Not sure If I'll run both pumps or just fill it with ice water and pump my wort thru the herms coil before I send it to the counterflow chiller.
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konrad
Joined: 02 Feb 2011
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Location: Mass
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| Link Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:52 am Post subject: |
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8 Mintues??
I went to HD today and they don't stock 1/2>1/4 couplings. I'll need to hit up Lowes next week.
How did you plumb the output going from the chiller to carboy? Did you use a quick connect there or permanently attached hose?
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pola0502ds
Joined: 14 Mar 2011
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Location: poland, Ohio
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Do you have any pictures of it completed?
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silverspoons
Joined: 21 Dec 2010
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Location: Webster NY
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| Link Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:55 pm Post subject: clamps |
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| konrad wrote: | 8 Mintues??
I went to HD today and they don't stock 1/2>1/4 couplings. I'll need to hit up Lowes next week.
How did you plumb the output going from the chiller to carboy? Did you use a quick connect there or permanently attached hose? |
permanent with clamps.. its only 2 feet long. my system is gravity fed.
Silverspoons
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silverspoons
Joined: 21 Dec 2010
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Location: Webster NY
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| Link Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:57 pm Post subject: Yet Snow |
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| Grandequeso wrote: | | I'm jealous of ya'll with your 40 sum odd degree faucet temp. The water comes out of my faucet around 74+ deg. The coldest I could get my wort last time I tried was 85 deg, and that was running the wort really slow. This weekend I'm going to try and use my boil kettle's herms coil as a pre chiller. Not sure If I'll run both pumps or just fill it with ice water and pump my wort thru the herms coil before I send it to the counterflow chiller. |
Yes, 42 degrees today, but less than two weeks ago we had 13 inches of snow fall overnight.. snow just melted off my roof.. i guess summer is here
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pola0502ds
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Nice work, did you use convoluted pipe?
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silverspoons
Joined: 21 Dec 2010
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Location: Webster NY
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| pola0502ds wrote: | | Nice work, did you use convoluted pipe? |
No, just a coil of 3/8 copper from Lowes, i had the piece of hose sitting in my basement and in reality i put it together as an experiment to see how well a counterflow chiller would work with my gravity fed system before i purchased one. i'm pretty sure i'm just going to stay with this because it works so well.
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