After several successful extract brews in my kitchen, I'm in the midst of upgrading to all grain equipment so I can perform a full boil (and brew outside ).
I've converted a keg by removing the top and have installed a weldless ball valve and a stainless steel pickup tube:
http://www.bargainfittings.com/inde...word=pickup tube&category_id=0&product_id=157
I'm planning on getting an immersion chiller, but just eyeballing things, I'm wondering how it will fit. I've filled about 6-7 gallons of water in my keg, but were I to submerge a copper coil into my beer, I'm pretty sure the pickup tube would be in the way (leaving several coils hanging out of the beer).
Are there any better options here? I'd prefer an immersion chiller for ease of cleaning/sanitation, and I also don't have a pump, so a CFC or plate chiller is probably out of the question.
For those with keggles and center-mounted pickup tubes, how do you submerge your immersion chiller as much as possible? Also, how do you stabilize your chiller?
I've converted a keg by removing the top and have installed a weldless ball valve and a stainless steel pickup tube:
http://www.bargainfittings.com/inde...word=pickup tube&category_id=0&product_id=157
I'm planning on getting an immersion chiller, but just eyeballing things, I'm wondering how it will fit. I've filled about 6-7 gallons of water in my keg, but were I to submerge a copper coil into my beer, I'm pretty sure the pickup tube would be in the way (leaving several coils hanging out of the beer).
Are there any better options here? I'd prefer an immersion chiller for ease of cleaning/sanitation, and I also don't have a pump, so a CFC or plate chiller is probably out of the question.
For those with keggles and center-mounted pickup tubes, how do you submerge your immersion chiller as much as possible? Also, how do you stabilize your chiller?