Poll
Question:
How do you Chill you Wort ?? (A Typical Brew)
Option 1: Immersion Chiller
votes: 13
Option 2: Plate Chiller
votes: 1
Option 3: Aussie Method - Leave it Overnight to Cooldown
votes: 1
Option 4: Something Else
votes: 3
Brewers - How do you cool you wort?
I have tried a few methods and I'm back to Immersion Chilling ... but getting from 24C to 19C is cruel.
What do you do?
I use immersion, thankfully at this time of year getting down to 19C is handy enough. Got to 17 handily today, and down to 14 eventually.
I use an undercounter chiller inline with the tap water for those last few degrees. Works great.
I use the plastic spoon I got years ago on my drill and an immersion chiller 24 to 18 is a pain but not too bad. Plus the wort is oxygenated at the same time
Quote from: Fal on October 27, 2017, 06:42:28 PM
I use the plastic spoon I got years ago on my drill and an immersion chiller 24 to 18 is a pain but not too bad. Plus the wort is oxygenated at the same time
Thats a great idea !
Quote from: Partridge9 on October 27, 2017, 07:16:55 PM
Quote from: Fal on October 27, 2017, 06:42:28 PM
I use the plastic spoon I got years ago on my drill and an immersion chiller 24 to 18 is a pain but not too bad. Plus the wort is oxygenated at the same time
Thats a great idea !
I use a counter flow chiller directly into my fermenter. 95% of the time it goes into the fermenter between 17C - 22C depending on the temp of the ground water. If I'm doing a lager I try to push my water through an immersion chiller sitting in an ice bath and then through my counter flow. It usually works quite well.
Double immersion chiller with splitter in the incoming water source so that its cold water entering both chillers. From tomorrow I will be trying using a pump from a bucket of ice chilled water. Previously I just pumped from an external water butt & while it saved water depending on the temperature outside it would be slow to get it to drop from 30C to 20C. Going forward I will add 10 picnic cooler blocks to a bucket of water & pump that through to.chill the last 10C. I expect that will.work really well. Keep an eye out in lidl or Aldi as they sell the blocks @various times through the year. I used to use the undercounter beer chiller but I found the piping too small for the immersion chiller. It was effectively going from garden hose 1/2" to beer line in to the chiller, beer line from the chiller to 10ml copper pipes. I found it was very slow & made the poor water pressure I had even worse.
Shanna
Grainfather comes with a counter flow chiller so there'll be alot of them.
Every so often my hop filter falls off, circulation pipe plugs up and I end up leaving it to chill outside overnight. Doesn't seem to affect the end result
Either way fermentation fridge used to get it to pitching temp
Quote from: Simon_ on October 28, 2017, 10:10:38 AM
Every so often my hop filter falls off, circulation pipe plugs up and I end up leaving it to chill outside overnight. Doesn't seem to affect the end result
Even if you turn the hop filter around? I've not had it happen in years!
Counter flow is the only way to do it! Waiting for immersion is a pain in the hole