25 feet of copper

[Dougie63]

I just came into a 25 foot coil of 1/2 copper tubing. I have a 2foot CFC I made with 3/8 coil I have a keggle brewstand I was thinking of either making a immersion chiller or making another cfc with 1/2 instead of the 3/8 but not sure if it would be too bigh for the hose any ideas? what would you make if you had a 25foot coil?

 

[buzzno]

I'd make an IC. The 1/2 tubing should be really efficient for it. I have a 3/8 CFC that works great but if I had 25' of 1/2" I'd just make an IC.

 

[Dougie63]

this tubing is actuall 50 feet! but I am having a totally hard time trying to coil it to IC size any ideas?

 

[disney7]

I wrapped mine around a korny keg and it was just the right size.

 

[buzzno]

I unfolded mine old IC out on the floor in the living room then wrapped it around my keg for a CFC. Worked great.

 

[LuiInIdaho]

this tubing is actuall 50 feet! but I am having a totally hard time trying to coil it to IC size any ideas?

I made an immersion chiller using 60 ft of half inch copper. I wrapped 40 ft around a plastic bucket (small enough diameter to get in my 15 gallon kettle) and then wrapped the other 20 ft around a bleach bottle (smaller diameter). Each coil forms and independent IC, but I frequently use them together where the smaller one fits inside the larger one. So I have 60 ft of copper cooling my wort. I can drop to pitching temperatures in 10 minutes. I realize that water temperature plays an important part of this, but there is a huge surface area with 60 ft of half inch copper in my wort.

Works great!

Mark

 

[Dougie63]

tried wrapping around a paint can and crushed the can this stuff is not very soft for tight coils