dbrewski
Well-Known Member
I made this a few weeks ago based on some thinking and some posts here. I wanted to improve performance over my standard 3/8" 25 foot IC. I had already made a 50 foot 1/2" version for my brew club based on BobbyM's howto, which worked very well, but I wanted something a little different, a combination of that with a rib cage design. So this is what I have. Sorry the images are a bit big.
As you can see the idea is that the incoming cold water line is 1/2" hard pipe which gets split into two 1/2" flexible copper chillers that are intertwined. The idea of splitting the incoming water into two was not mine, I picked it up here and liked it. It's like two mini coils. Then at the bottom they come back together into another T and up and out. The performance getting the wort down below 120 blows my smaller chiller away, but things slow down after that. This weekend I am going to whirlpool while chilling using a pump and see what that does.
As you can see the idea is that the incoming cold water line is 1/2" hard pipe which gets split into two 1/2" flexible copper chillers that are intertwined. The idea of splitting the incoming water into two was not mine, I picked it up here and liked it. It's like two mini coils. Then at the bottom they come back together into another T and up and out. The performance getting the wort down below 120 blows my smaller chiller away, but things slow down after that. This weekend I am going to whirlpool while chilling using a pump and see what that does.