bassplayer142
Member
Hi everyone, I would like to first thank everyone for participation in the site and the fact that this site exists for homebrewers new and old.
Me and my family are getting more serious into homebrewing, and my engineering knowledge and lack of time calls for more serious upgrades for more time and quality efficiency. We have been cooling wort the traditional way with a wort chiller and hose but I want to revamp this.
My strategy is to fix a valve to the bottom of our brewpot. Once the brew is done boiling I would open the valve and the wort would come through a tube to a pump. This pump would push the wort through a copper coil immersed inside a ice filled cooler or container. The goal is to have cooled wort immediately upon exiting the coil.
Some problems I have determined are as follows.
1. cleanliness and clogging problems in the copper coil and pump
2. Speed of flow vs exiting temperature (slower flow should definitely decrease the temperature more efficiently)
3. cost
4. Which pump? (I've looked into a few like the march 809 pump, but the price is steep).
Has anyone implemented this strategy before or have any knowledge whether it will work or not? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Me and my family are getting more serious into homebrewing, and my engineering knowledge and lack of time calls for more serious upgrades for more time and quality efficiency. We have been cooling wort the traditional way with a wort chiller and hose but I want to revamp this.
My strategy is to fix a valve to the bottom of our brewpot. Once the brew is done boiling I would open the valve and the wort would come through a tube to a pump. This pump would push the wort through a copper coil immersed inside a ice filled cooler or container. The goal is to have cooled wort immediately upon exiting the coil.
Some problems I have determined are as follows.
1. cleanliness and clogging problems in the copper coil and pump
2. Speed of flow vs exiting temperature (slower flow should definitely decrease the temperature more efficiently)
3. cost
4. Which pump? (I've looked into a few like the march 809 pump, but the price is steep).
Has anyone implemented this strategy before or have any knowledge whether it will work or not? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!