Anyone using the "Wort Wizard" ?

[jetmac]

http://www.wortwizard.com/

Is it everything you thought it would be?
Is it working well for you?

Mark

 

[indigi]

I'm gonna need someone to explain to me how this works, I really don't get it.

 

[crash1292]

looks like the venturi principal...water passing thru creates low pressure therefore acting like a pump...but the waste water ends up in the wort

 

[lumpher]

not a chance i'd use it. i agree with crash; a lot of water from the hose would get into the wort.

 

[snowboard419]

From what I see it just creates a suction action inside of the carboy using a 2 hole stopper. So no hose water in your wort, unless the output got plugged. I use a similar device at work to suck oil/gasoline out of machines but ours uses compressed air over a venturi to create the suction which would also work for beer and would not waste water.

 

[jetmac]

This is used so you don't have to elevate your kettle above your fermenting carboy after boil.
To explain how it works: 1 small hose from kettle outlet into carboy thru plug. 1 small hose from carboy plug to WW side. Hose from chiller outlet to WW. After wort is chilled, you put your chiller outlet on the WW and the flow of water causes a slight vacuum in the carboy,thru the hose, causing the wort to flow out of(or be sucked out of) your kettle into the carboy. No water in your wort unless maybe you get a problem and have backflow. Does seem like you would use alot of water to do this. It would be cool to figure out how to use compressed air to do the same thing.

 

[lumpher]

and put a perfectly good 50' immersion cooler out of a job?!?

 

[snowboard419]

How about this.

 

[luthierzan]

No Youtube video of how it works? geesh