Brewpastor
Beer, not rocket chemistry
I have been promising to post material on my chilling set-up for my conicals and so here it is.
I have two 25 gallon stainless conicals. Each of these has an internal 25 foot copper coil that serves as an immersion chiller. Glycol is circulated through these for chilling.
My chilling unit is a glycol beer line chiller, designed to circulate glycol along long runs of beer lines in a draught situation. The unit has a compressor, reservoir, pump, plate heat exchanger and various controls, thermostats and pressure switches. Depending on the glycol mix (which is basically food grade radiator fluid) this unit can chill the glycol well below 0 degrees F. The units pump is what circulates the fluid through whatever loop is constructed, via inlet and outlet ports.
Because I also use glycol for a second stage coolant in my wort chiller (water is the first stage coolant) I wanted a larger reservoir of chilled glycol, so that I would always have enough chilled glycol to keep up with the demand.
For this purpose I have an Igloo cooler with inlet and outlet manifolds added. Basically the larger chilling unit simply keeps the reservoir chilled. (continued on the next post...)
I have two 25 gallon stainless conicals. Each of these has an internal 25 foot copper coil that serves as an immersion chiller. Glycol is circulated through these for chilling.
My chilling unit is a glycol beer line chiller, designed to circulate glycol along long runs of beer lines in a draught situation. The unit has a compressor, reservoir, pump, plate heat exchanger and various controls, thermostats and pressure switches. Depending on the glycol mix (which is basically food grade radiator fluid) this unit can chill the glycol well below 0 degrees F. The units pump is what circulates the fluid through whatever loop is constructed, via inlet and outlet ports.
Because I also use glycol for a second stage coolant in my wort chiller (water is the first stage coolant) I wanted a larger reservoir of chilled glycol, so that I would always have enough chilled glycol to keep up with the demand.
For this purpose I have an Igloo cooler with inlet and outlet manifolds added. Basically the larger chilling unit simply keeps the reservoir chilled. (continued on the next post...)