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USMChueston0311
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Link Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:50 pm Post subject: Anyone cold crash successfully without a chiller? |
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Has anyone successfully cold crashed their conical (spike cf15) with 10 gallon batch down to cold crash temps using just a water/glycol resevoir in a mini-fridge? I think that the heat transfer will warm the cooling source up to much after it passes through the beer continuously.
Has anyone had success doing this? By rotating cold buckets from a different fridge, adding ice packs, bottles ETC?
Have 2 weeks to figure out how to get cold crashing temps so that I can carbonate in keg...
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perogi
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Link Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think it would work very well using a refrigerator - the videos I've seen use a freezer at low temperatures.
If you're trying to save some money I definitely recommend using an old (but working) AC unit and cooler to build your own glycol chiller. I finished mine about a month ago and it rocks.
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kal Forum Administrator
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Link Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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For what it's worth, I suggest a simplified approach: Only cold crash once you're in the keg on CO2. That's what I do.
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perogi
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Link Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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^ Kal as usual has the simplest and proven solution
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USMChueston0311
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Link Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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kal wrote: | For what it's worth, I suggest a simplified approach: Only cold crash once you're in the keg on CO2. That's what I do.
Kal |
Cold crash in the keg, when you start to carbonate?
Was hoping to be able to carbonate and crash in fermenter, but I dont think that will be able to hapen with 30 degree resevoir temps in fridge.
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kal Forum Administrator
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Link Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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USMChueston0311 wrote: | Cold crash in the keg, when you start to carbonate? |
Correct.
Quote: | Was hoping to be able to carbonate and crash in fermenter, but I dont think that will be able to hapen with 30 degree resevoir temps in fridge. |
You can certainly do that, and that's one of the benefit of a unitank, but if you don't have the means to do it simply you have to ask what are you really simplifying? Completely up to you of course.
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Ozarks Mountain Brew
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Link Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:27 am Post subject: |
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you probably don't have a fridge big enough but for small batches this works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIs1cQ0YwHM
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USMChueston0311
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Link Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah my cf15 is a BIG conical. Even without the leg extensions, I dont think it would fit in a normal fridge. I will just crash/carb in keg, and save up for a 1/2HP penguin glycol chiller next. Then I can fully take advantage of what all my unitank can do.
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