TreeBridge
Well-Known Member
So, the next step to the brewery is a temperature controlled 40 gallon plastic conical fermentor. I wanted to shoot my ideas off and see what the community thought.
We will be using this to ferment ales. If possible we would like to be able to crash cool it (40F-35F) before hitting the kegs.
The plan is to chill it with a 35-50ft stainless steel coil submerged in the fermenting beer. Ideally we want the coil drop into the cone. The coil will come out the side of the fermentor so we can make a closed connection to a reservoir or propylene glycol inside a small freezer. We were thinking about using 3 gallons of glycol.
I believe the pump we were going to go with is a magnetic drive pump similar to a march pump. I can get more info on this later.
Do you think a bcs-460 would be appropriate to control this? We do plan on getting more of these fermentors if we have good results.
Does this sound reasonable?
We will be using this to ferment ales. If possible we would like to be able to crash cool it (40F-35F) before hitting the kegs.
The plan is to chill it with a 35-50ft stainless steel coil submerged in the fermenting beer. Ideally we want the coil drop into the cone. The coil will come out the side of the fermentor so we can make a closed connection to a reservoir or propylene glycol inside a small freezer. We were thinking about using 3 gallons of glycol.
I believe the pump we were going to go with is a magnetic drive pump similar to a march pump. I can get more info on this later.
Do you think a bcs-460 would be appropriate to control this? We do plan on getting more of these fermentors if we have good results.
Does this sound reasonable?