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Have you guys ever tried dry hopping without bags, and then dumping without cold crashing? I tried it for my last brew and it did not go too well. There was still a lot of hops in the conical after I dumped what I could. Would crashing help with that?

Nice setup!!! Curious what the lowest temp you can get down to with an aquarium chiller is?

Listen to people that say buy once cry once.

First use! This thing is awesome! Can't wait till the temp control system is out! I need some sort of heat jacket for the winter!

Does anyone use a cooler with just ice in it? How often do you have to change the ice? I was thinking about doing that until I can score an aquarium chiller off craigslist for cheap. That way I can just buy the cooler/pump for now and save my wallet a little pain.

A stout I brewed a while ago. It kinda sucked at first but its getting better.

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Nice review!

Don't think you can really go wrong with either. Mine just came today! Super pumped to use it this weekend. But yeah...RIP wallet.

Thanks. I think you have convinced me not to try keg in freezer then. Still considering the aquarium chiller route though upper 40s sounds okay to me. How hot was the room your fermenter was in?

I just had same decision to make and sent with the cf5. I just really don't have a desire to move to 10 gallon batches anytime soon and the cf5 is smaller and you won't to move the themowell around.

I'm thinking I wouldn't be able to chill it all the way to 35 with this method. I would have to leave the freezer at about 33 so my other beer didn't freeze as well. I guess I don't have much to lose trying this method as I would be able to reuse the pump for an aquarium chiller setup.

I want to avoid putting the conical in the chest freezer cause it will limit my access to all the valves and make everything hard to get to. I meant filling up a keg with water and running tubing out of the chest freezer to the chiller in the top of the conical.

Just read through a lot of this thread. What kind of luck do you think i would have cooling the spike cf5 conical with five gallon batches with the keg in the chest freezer method? I'd be fine with not being able to cold crash but it would be nice to lager/get low enough temps to force carb with...

Hmm interesting. Maybe I need to rethink this. If I kept the fridge at 33F, insulated the lines and got the Neoprene jacket for the fermenter I wonder if I could get it to at least 65F. Not sure I want to try it if chances arent good though...

Interesting. Do you think I would be able to get it to like 55F for lagering? Even if I can't ill just use my brew bucket in my chest freezer to lager but it would be nice regardless.

Interesting thanks! I guess ill find out. If I can get it down to 50-55 degrees for lagering I will be happy, then I can just cold crash in my kegs. I had a few homebrews and ordered the CF5 tonight.

Yeah I guess I just don't get it lol. Anyways, I ordered the fermenter with the gas manifold and transfer kit. Super pumped to get it!

I was thinking about ordering a Spike CF5 conical and I have a question about cold crashing. I was thinking about using my chest freezer, filling up a keg with cold water, setting it to 32 degrees, and running that water through the temp control lid with a pump. Realistically in a 50-60...

Do you know the calculator to convert CaCO3 to the value I want? I have been searching but have not found a great answer. Edit: Nvm I found it in your spread sheet! Thats amazing!! I will purchase the full version when I can.