airbornespoon
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So I want a chiller that will allow me to cold crash my 5 gallon batches of beer in my grainfather conical fermenter. I was just putting the whole thing in my fridge after it was done but that fridge is gone and it was a pain in the ass anyway.
I have been looking for a glycol chiller for a while and they are all like a grand so naturally I looked on Alibaba and AliExpress and found one for like $400.
Just wondering how many BTU's do I really need to cold crash 5 gallons? I mean this one puts out 1400 BTU of cooling and that's comparable to some of the $1000 ones. Also what about aquarium coolers? I mean just fill it with glycol and crank it all the way down, but again what size do I really need and how many BTU will work?
Here's the link of one I'm using as an example.
https://app.alibaba.com/dynamiclink...share_detail&ck=share_detail&shareScene=buyer
I have been looking for a glycol chiller for a while and they are all like a grand so naturally I looked on Alibaba and AliExpress and found one for like $400.
Just wondering how many BTU's do I really need to cold crash 5 gallons? I mean this one puts out 1400 BTU of cooling and that's comparable to some of the $1000 ones. Also what about aquarium coolers? I mean just fill it with glycol and crank it all the way down, but again what size do I really need and how many BTU will work?
Here's the link of one I'm using as an example.
https://app.alibaba.com/dynamiclink...share_detail&ck=share_detail&shareScene=buyer