Recent content by Ckalnasy

Just did some googling and found this as a good solution. Lots of home brewers use this method when needing glycol cooling for brewing.

I actually attempted that as well. You could just tell the freezer could not keep up. The a/c unit method is already surpassing the needs for cooling. Not even putting a strain on it to keep the glycol that cold.

I bought a Frigidaire FFRA0511R1. Its a standard 5,000 BTU mechanical switch a/c unit. Now I did use a 70qt cooler because this glycol chiller is for my remote tap system for my bar, so I needed a larger capacity for cooling.

Knocked this out yesterday afternoon in a couple hours. Took no time at all and bypassing the temp sensor was super easy because its a mechanical switch unit and not electronic, so no need for having to trick the sensor with a heat lamp or anything like that.

Got the new glycol system operational last night. Window a/c unit. Temps were holding at 25 degrees last night easily. Extremely pleased.

Looking great so far David!

Connected the glycol trunk line to the glycol lines running through the main glycol line. Here is where I will note the least amount of ‘product’ lines that come in a trunk line with glycol is 6. The plan was only for a 4 tap tower, so I have 2 spare product lines, but I could always upgrade...

Next I added ‘stealth’ brackets for new counter tops coming in. New counters were cut from a custom stone that a local small company had in stock. Definitely not something your box store is going to have. Then we added the bar rail, which is powder coated black. New sink/faucet...

Hey guys, new to the forum and I figure I would share my bar build for the new house my wife and I bought end of last year. The basement had a pretty large rec room (close to 30x30) with a bar already in it. Plan was to update the bar, flooring, and new paint. We still have yet to paint the...