The benefit of stainless being it's corrosion resistance. More along the lines of cleaners and soaking and what not. But yes copper has better thermal transfer. Although I've heard when it comes to regular tubing at the thicknesses involved there isn't that much difference.
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That's a good point. My main thought was to the ridges providing turbulence. However, the valleys of a convoluted tubing are parallel to the flow and these are perpendicular. Those valleys probably are more likely to retain material.
Has anyone built one of these or seen one?
I was thinking of taking a 1/2" corrugated stainless steel tube and putting it in a 1" Corrugated. Not cheap, but it should provide the benefits, of a convoluted CFC and stainless...
It looks like there is a "650SS" actually a "690SS" with a creamer function for ~$8 more
https://www.perlick.com/store/webcatalog2.php?catno=1§no=1&grpno=1
Edit: Looks like it might not be available yet...
I haven't used Amarillo a lot. I was worried about it being a little too soft or one dimensional. I feel that way about mosaic. I like it as a hop but for me it's almost too soft for American style Pale Ales. I get a lot of blueberry from Mosaic. However after this batch I will have to try...
I'm looking to make a fairly simple pale ale recipe using amarillo but avoiding it being a grapefruit dominate flavor. I know there is a lot of posts on amarillo, but I couldn't really find any on avoiding the grapefruit. I've made several other IPA's and Ambers that were grapefruity and...
If you are in the South Dakota Area on October 6th, 2012 and want to attend here are the details. The local homebrew club, The Ale Riders is helping to put this on. There will be homebrew tastings from the club as well as samplings from Craft Brewers...