autobaun70
Well-Known Member
I am moving up to a keggle from my aluminum Turkey Fryer pot, and need to do something for a chiller. I am planning on putting a false bottom w/ weldless fitting into the keggle. My thought is to get a 50' Length of copper line (3/8") and coil it up in a spare cooler, and then fill the cooler with heavily salted ice water. Once the boil is complete, kill the heat and run the water through the coil into my now retired aluminum pot, sanitized of course. I am thinking I will probably still use this pot for heating my mash/sparge water anyway, which would sanitize it without having to go through any extra steps. To keep the water in the cooler moving, I would just drop in a spare bait tank pump with no hoses attached, should keep it swirling quite nicely. To control the speed of flow, I would just put an adjustable ball valve on the output side of the coper coil. My reasoning for going this route is that in SC in the summer, our water temp gets up there making a normal immersion chiller pretty ineffective without using a pre-chiller, which this would get around.