WarStreetBrewer
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Well let me tell you how my evening went. I almost lost my IPA because my CFC did something I was completely not expecting. And please laugh at me if you've heard this one before or better yet, if you figured it out yourself. I put eight pounds of DME into my roughly 4 gallon kettle and boiled it for two hours, only adding a quart of water once. Then, I ran it through my CFC, which is 45 feet long. The wort got so chilled (down to my tap temp which is probably around 50-55F) and it was so thick that the weak siphon wasn't enough to make it move.. it was essentially clogged with clear wort. (There were no hops found in the line after cleanup)
So my advice to you, if you're not laughing yet, is to add water to a small kettle if you've got one, or get a pump for the CFC.. maybe an old dialysis machine. Auto siphons do not work in 200F wort very well. I am also going to cut my CFC in half, buy more copper fittings, and make two out of it.
So my advice to you, if you're not laughing yet, is to add water to a small kettle if you've got one, or get a pump for the CFC.. maybe an old dialysis machine. Auto siphons do not work in 200F wort very well. I am also going to cut my CFC in half, buy more copper fittings, and make two out of it.