mikefromcu
Well-Known Member
Attention all engineers (I should have paid more attention in skool):
I'm thinking of recirculating Glycol through the plate-chiller as the cooling solution to my large batches. On my 20 gallon system I run hose water through the chiller, while recirculating the wort back to the kettle to get the wort down to ~150, then use a recirculating ice bath on the plate chiller and pump from the kettle into the fermenter. No problem. BUT!
Now I'm moving to larger batches and don't want to waste as much and would like to speed this up... Wonder if I used glycol the whole time if I could go straight off the whirlpool kettle (still around 200ish) to the fermenter if it used Glycol as the chilling fluid?
I was thinking I could put a container (bucket like) in my chest freezer to hold a large glycol bath (20? 30?? gallon bucket in there, with a submersible pump) and two lines, one to and one from the glycol bucket through the chiller.
How would I calculate how much glycol I'd need? I really need to go single pass straight off the whirlpool kettle - and this for what will be my 51 gallon batches...
Thoughts? Seen it? Help!
I'm thinking of recirculating Glycol through the plate-chiller as the cooling solution to my large batches. On my 20 gallon system I run hose water through the chiller, while recirculating the wort back to the kettle to get the wort down to ~150, then use a recirculating ice bath on the plate chiller and pump from the kettle into the fermenter. No problem. BUT!
Now I'm moving to larger batches and don't want to waste as much and would like to speed this up... Wonder if I used glycol the whole time if I could go straight off the whirlpool kettle (still around 200ish) to the fermenter if it used Glycol as the chilling fluid?
I was thinking I could put a container (bucket like) in my chest freezer to hold a large glycol bath (20? 30?? gallon bucket in there, with a submersible pump) and two lines, one to and one from the glycol bucket through the chiller.
How would I calculate how much glycol I'd need? I really need to go single pass straight off the whirlpool kettle - and this for what will be my 51 gallon batches...
Thoughts? Seen it? Help!