Jonnio
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Here is where I am at. I am looking down the line at building my AG equipment and my next immediately useable piece is a chiller.
I am doing partial mashes inside with about 4 gal boils right now in a cheap stockpot. I would kind of like to use whatever chiller I make for both winter time (when I will likely come back inside to the same setup) and down the road when I get a burner and keggle to go AG.
So my two options are
1) Build an immersion chiller that can work with the sink for winter, and then buy a cheap fountain pump (or other pump) to recirc ice water when I go AG.
2) Build a CF and do something to pour the wort through it and adapters for the sink for winter time with the plan on gravity feeding with the keggle down the road.
So my questions are basically:
Is everyone moving to CF because it is that much better (also see below)?
I have been reading that people are still pumping ice water through a CFC in the summer time because tap water stops doing the job, so doesn't it get kind of equipment intensive to have to pump ice water in one side and pump wort through the other and is it worth it?
I am doing partial mashes inside with about 4 gal boils right now in a cheap stockpot. I would kind of like to use whatever chiller I make for both winter time (when I will likely come back inside to the same setup) and down the road when I get a burner and keggle to go AG.
So my two options are
1) Build an immersion chiller that can work with the sink for winter, and then buy a cheap fountain pump (or other pump) to recirc ice water when I go AG.
2) Build a CF and do something to pour the wort through it and adapters for the sink for winter time with the plan on gravity feeding with the keggle down the road.
So my questions are basically:
Is everyone moving to CF because it is that much better (also see below)?
I have been reading that people are still pumping ice water through a CFC in the summer time because tap water stops doing the job, so doesn't it get kind of equipment intensive to have to pump ice water in one side and pump wort through the other and is it worth it?