Gabe
It's a sickness!
I want to build one. One that will last and looks good. Cold plate or SS tubing? Where for parts?
maybe.... but for the contact time its going to have..... dont know. I like my SS twin it chills boiling hot water to cold constantly...$#!^ I just had an IDEA use my Jocky box for a wort chiller Duh.... what was I thinkingGabe said:Thought copper was bad after ferm?
Mc MasterCarr I would think has itGabe said:I wonder where I can find some 3/8 '' SS tubing?
slimer said:It's really really really hard to clean out cold plates. I'm just sayin.
milldoggy said:I just built my first jockey box. I got a 5 Gallon round cooler from Home Depot for 20$. Got 50 ft of 1/4" copper from ebay for 30. I wrapped the copper around my corny keg. Bend the bottom end up. Got some 3/16 tubing and clamped it around it. I drilled holes near the top, on the side of the cooler, ran the lines through it and put some silicon around it to seal it. I got a 4$ picnic tap and hooked it up to one end. I then connected a ball lock out to the other side. So easy.
I did a test at trout camp last week. I had a keg of Bravian Weizen. I force carboed it, left it warm. I got one of those small pretzel rod containers and froze water to make a block of ice. This fit perfectly in the center. I then fill it up with cube ice, about 5 lbs, maybe less. After arriving, I let it settle for about an hour, unfrooze my lines(i ran cleaner through it and then added all the ice before my journey, this will freeze the lines, better to put a little beer in if you are traveling with the ice in it) Cranked the psi up to 15. And it worked fantasic. Left it out side for 3 days and the ice was still good. Beer was great to the last sip. I can post pics if you want.
milldoggy said:I just built my first jockey box. I got a 5 Gallon round cooler from Home Depot for 20$. Got 50 ft of 1/4" copper from ebay for 30. I wrapped the copper around my corny keg. Bend the bottom end up. Got some 3/16 tubing and clamped it around it. I drilled holes near the top, on the side of the cooler, ran the lines through it and put some silicon around it to seal it. I got a 4$ picnic tap and hooked it up to one end. I then connected a ball lock out to the other side. So easy.
I did a test at trout camp last week. I had a keg of Bravian Weizen. I force carboed it, left it warm. I got one of those small pretzel rod containers and froze water to make a block of ice. This fit perfectly in the center. I then fill it up with cube ice, about 5 lbs, maybe less. After arriving, I let it settle for about an hour, unfrooze my lines(i ran cleaner through it and then added all the ice before my journey, this will freeze the lines, better to put a little beer in if you are traveling with the ice in it) Cranked the psi up to 15. And it worked fantasic. Left it out side for 3 days and the ice was still good. Beer was great to the last sip. I can post pics if you want.
milldoggy said:I can post pics if you want.
soo...where are these pics? I'm wanting to build one of these to accompany my first AG batch to a music festival June 14th...
Is the heat transfer too poor to just use extra beverage tubing?
I have never heard anything about the copper affecting the flavor, or why would we use the copper IC?
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