G-E-R-M-A-N
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Well first off let me state that I have a shirron plate chiller, that I am thinking of ditching.
I live in Houston, where the water can be high in temp, so naturally I also took precautions to run the water side of the chiller closed loop with ice water.
I jumped into brewing a while back, and have only brewed 1 batch so far. Let just say that I did not get the results from my shirron chiller, that I wanted. I had issues with getting the temp down in a reasonable amount of time. It took way too long.
The flow from my march pump slowed down to a trickle. It just seemed like the shirron got clogged with hopps or debris.
So after everything was finnally transferred, I took the chiller to clean it. I forced water in reverse and kept getting debris. I have cleaned it several times, and still getting debris. It is like there is another dimension in there somewhere. I finnally told myself, that if it is going to be this hard to chill and clean it, that I am going to go with another method.
So after all of this I am thinking of two different setups.
One would be to use a Chillzilla in conjunction with my pump. I would think this would be good if I step up to 10 gal batches in the future.
Another option would be to go with a 50ft immersion chiller, and also use 50ft coil as a prechiller on ice. (this might seem like overkill, but our summers are hot here)
Sorry if this post seems like it is going all kinds of different directions, but I am just trying to get a good solid setup and the shirron has just made brewing more complicated.
I live in Houston, where the water can be high in temp, so naturally I also took precautions to run the water side of the chiller closed loop with ice water.
I jumped into brewing a while back, and have only brewed 1 batch so far. Let just say that I did not get the results from my shirron chiller, that I wanted. I had issues with getting the temp down in a reasonable amount of time. It took way too long.
The flow from my march pump slowed down to a trickle. It just seemed like the shirron got clogged with hopps or debris.
So after everything was finnally transferred, I took the chiller to clean it. I forced water in reverse and kept getting debris. I have cleaned it several times, and still getting debris. It is like there is another dimension in there somewhere. I finnally told myself, that if it is going to be this hard to chill and clean it, that I am going to go with another method.
So after all of this I am thinking of two different setups.
One would be to use a Chillzilla in conjunction with my pump. I would think this would be good if I step up to 10 gal batches in the future.
Another option would be to go with a 50ft immersion chiller, and also use 50ft coil as a prechiller on ice. (this might seem like overkill, but our summers are hot here)
Sorry if this post seems like it is going all kinds of different directions, but I am just trying to get a good solid setup and the shirron has just made brewing more complicated.