hi guys,
I've made this immersion chiller
With 30 feet of 1/2" copper
I chilled my 5 gal. worth in 5 min, the water temp. was 10 C IS THIS COLD?.
It costed, in canada, 85 $ IS THIS CHEAP?.
lol, its 77 us dollar and 50 f!I'm an ignorant American, sorry.
lol, its 77 us dollar and 50 f!
Thank you for converting
So your tap water is 77F and cooled that quickly? Surprising.
That's a great price to build a chiller like that, congrats.
Looks like the piping is a thicker gauge and has a large contact area with the wort, very nice!
I'm an ignorant American, sorry.
thanks,but its 50 degres and 77 $ !
Something tells me there is a backstory to this response.
OP: 10C is cold. At that temp though I am surprised to hear of a 5 minute cool if you're talking about a full 5 gallons of wort. I did it in about 21 minutes and water was 42F. Though your chiller may just be better built.
Another factor is HOW you chill. If you gently stir the wort and move the chiller around (in and out) rather than letting it just sit there, you can drastically reduce chilling time. Maybe you are doing this, maybe not, I don't know.
I have a 50' - 3/8" chiller and with using a wine degasser to stir and lifting the chiller up and down I can chill 5 gallons of wort pretty quickly to 70F. I can get it down in about 10-15min tops. To start I go very easy to not introduce a lot of oxygen while the wort is hot. As it cools I speed up and get aggressive with the stirring.
If I just let the chiller sit in the hot wort with no movement, it can take well over 30-45 minutes.
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