Duckfoot
Well-Known Member
After a 12.5 hour drive from Pittsburgh to Atlanta Saturday, and all day Sunday brewng up some Thunderstruck Pumpkin Ale, cleaning out my new Sankes, plugging up my soon-to-be kegerator (pics to follow) and rearranging the garage to fit SWMBO's Bimmer in it's rightful place, I re-discovered that I am the proud owner of approximately 30+ feet of 3/4" and 20 feet of 1/2" copper tubing... Thank you previous homeowner... (I won't mention the 10' diameter sinkhole in my backyard where they buried the trees they cut down 10 years ago... F**KERS!!!)
Since I have no future plumbing projects (<-- knocks on wood) I was thinking of a pre-chiller / counterflow-ish type of setup... Take a used (and useless at this point) 30 - 40 quart cooler, use some 90* elbows and the aforementioned copper tubing and make a 'coil' to place in said cooler full of ice / water to cool wort from the keggle to my fermentors...
Currently using a 25' IC, with a recirculating ice water / pump system which I have to transfer wort from keggle to a 20q pot to use ... Kind of a PITA since I can only cool about 4 gallons at a time without overflowing the pot...
Granted a 5+ gallon pot would be 'easier', but since I have almost all of the materials (minus the 90's) I figure WTF...
Any questions / comments?
Since I have no future plumbing projects (<-- knocks on wood) I was thinking of a pre-chiller / counterflow-ish type of setup... Take a used (and useless at this point) 30 - 40 quart cooler, use some 90* elbows and the aforementioned copper tubing and make a 'coil' to place in said cooler full of ice / water to cool wort from the keggle to my fermentors...
Currently using a 25' IC, with a recirculating ice water / pump system which I have to transfer wort from keggle to a 20q pot to use ... Kind of a PITA since I can only cool about 4 gallons at a time without overflowing the pot...
Granted a 5+ gallon pot would be 'easier', but since I have almost all of the materials (minus the 90's) I figure WTF...
Any questions / comments?