I recently went from immersion chilling to a plate chiller. I also just read an article in BYO in which they make an immersion chiller for fermenting/layering. However in the build they use a stainless chiller. I was wondering if there are any known issues that would advise me that this same thing couldn't be done with a copper chiller? Is there perhaps copper leaching issue or something?
Copper ok for immersion chiller to control fermentor temps?
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iijakii
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No, copper is not OK with beer, only wort. Fermentation makes it more acidic adn drops it below the threshold for the acid to leech metals. bye bye liver.
That's what I was thinking but had to ask. Guess it will just be a summer pre-chiller for the plate chiller
