sok454 said:Wait... are you supposed to put the chiller in while its still boiling? Or can you just put sanitzier on it and then put it int he kettle after you have removed it from the heat?
The guy who runs our lhbs said he never has to use sanitizer on his chiller. He just puts it in during the last 15 minutes of the boil and its as shiny as the day he bought it
Holy Crap! I can't believe the difference the wort chiller makes in my brew time. Went from 1.5 hours to about 15 mins to bring it from boiling to >90 degrees.
Poured wort from kettle to fermentation bucket added water topped off to 5 gals and added yeast. Wow! cut my time by a bunch!!!
I just made a wort chiller yesterday. I used 50' x 3/8" for the main chiller and 20' x 3/8" for the pre-chiller. I didn't connect everything up, but I made the coils.
That's a pretty good price. I paid $47 just of the 50' 3/8" copper tubing and $9 for the barbed fitting alone. But I need mine by Saturday so I didn't have time to wait.I made one yesterday, too. I bought a 50' 3/8" compression fitting kit for $60 shipped from coppertubingsales.com.
I made one yesterday, too. I bought a 50' 3/8" compression fitting kit for $60 shipped from coppertubingsales.com. The bends aren't too pretty, but I did them by hand, and I had some issues wrapping around the keg at a couple of turns, but I am happy as can be with the finished product. I left one fitting off because I'm putting vinyl tubing on the outlet. I brew outside, and I'll be draining the water onto the grass/driveway as I'm cooling the wort....I can't wait to try this sucker this weekend!
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