Desperately trying to find way to connect wort chiller to sink...

[GoodTruble]

Ha. Unbelievable. It works. Janky as hell, but it works. =c)

 

[Jagohaus]

I got this adapter at Home Depot. I removed the aerator, screwed in the adapter and attached the garden hose to the third set of threads.

 

[GoodTruble]

The problem is/was my sink sprayer head. It doesn't unscrew, detach or have any standard connection point. This works because the coupling just goes over the whole sprayer head. Takes about 10 seconds to attach and tighten down. It leaks a bit, but just into the sink and still plenty of pressure to push water through the wort chiller. It will work and allows me to use the most convenient water source instead of lugging hot kettle around or running laughably long hose lines from another sink 20 feet away.

 

[GoodTruble]

Ha. Correction. After looking at my own photo, I realized the sprayer head does unscrew just above the sprayer cone. I bet the adapter from your picture would work and I'll look for one at HD or Lowes. Thanks!

 

[soccerdad]

Janky as hell, but it works. =c)View attachment 728907

A thing of pure booty. Beauty I mean. Pure beauty.

 

[DuncB]

I use this, got it in the gardening section. Made by a company called Gardena , Works well takes a standard hose fitting although I just have the tube cable tied on and it copes fine with the pressure for the condenser and the counterflow chiller.

 

[Culinarytracker]

I'd highly recommend going under the sink and just hooking on where the faucet feed line connects to the plumbing. If you do it a lot you can even replumb it with a T fitting and a separate ball valve where you can connect your chiller with whatever method you want.

If you want to go that route, send a pic of what you've got under the sink and I"ll make you a part list.

 

[Jagohaus]

Ha. Correction. After looking at my own photo, I realized the sprayer head does unscrew just above the sprayer cone. I bet the adapter from your picture would work and I'll look for one at HD or Lowes. Thanks!

I got lucky when I went to Home Depot and the Home Depot employee was a former plumber

 

[dwhite60]

Fountain pump and a bucket. Cheap, easy, and effective.

 

[GoodTruble]

Fountain pump and a bucket. Cheap, easy, and effective.

But the above part that worked for me $4. Not sure you could even get the bucket for that. =c)

I did consider it though so that I could use ice cold water. But ultimately decided I would rather not have two more pieces of equipment to deal with on brew day. Still may try it at some point though.

 

[WesBrew]

I use a garden hose adapter shown above and one of these , just unscrew the aerator from the faucet and screw in hose. Best price on Amazon Beaulife 304 Stainless Steel Metal Short Garden Hose 3 Feet Flexible, Portable & | eBay

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

Ha. Unbelievable. It works. Janky as hell, but it works. =c)View attachment 728907

The only drawback with this is that the swivel fitting on the sinkhead is VERY low flow, may be 2-gallons per minutes. If it works for you, then it's all good. Might not be enough for others.

MC

 

[RufusBrewer]

Bucket and sump pump off Amazon. You get the bonus of being able to add ice and pump ice water through the chiller.

Run the water as fast as you can through the chiller. Do not recirculate the exhaust back into the ice. Yes, you will save water, but the trade off is you will use more ice.

 

[easttex]

Rather than go off the faucet, try a different route.

Get a threaded tee and shutoff valve from the hardware store. Turn your cold water off under the sink at the valve and put the tee between the valve that comes out of the wall and the cold water supply line that runs to the sink. Put the shut off valve you bought on the middle of the tee. That is now your cold water tap. Simply connect a quick disconnet to that and you're set.

If my memory serves from watching their YouTube videos, I'm pretty sure that's how the guys at Clawhammer Supply have their chiller water set up.

 

[GoodTruble]

My cold water line under the sink is not very accessible. It's behind the garbage disposal and difficult to reach.

There are a few more potential fixes/work arounds in this thread as well......

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/thread...ect-delta-faucet-to-immersion-chiller.680164/

 

[bwible]

So I recently moved to a new apartment and my kitchen sink faucet does not have a standard garden hose attachment.

The sink in question is this American Standard Fairbury Single-Handle Pull-Down Sprayer Kitchen Faucet in Polished Chrome-4005F - The Home Depot


I have tried going to the hardware store to find an adapter that will go from a garden hose to what I can only assume is a proprietary size. The size is somewhere in between 3/8 and 1/4 but quite frankly I'm not sure any size will actually work based on the threading on the other sink end.


What other options do I have? I have been dying to brew but I just can't figure out a way to connect my wort chiller to a water source....

Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks in advanced!

I have something really similar. I found the sprayer part unscrews and there’s a hose with an in-between, oddball sized male thread connection. I found a beer nut from a beer shank was close enough that I could make it work with several wraps of teflon tape. Its a PITA to unscrew and set up for every brew and pull the teflon off when I’m done. But the alternative for me was to carry the boiling pot and chiller down the basrment steps to the basrment deep sink. So again, I made it work best I could.

 

[GoodTruble]

Quick update: Used this ridiculous setup successfully tonight. Chilled 5 gallons in about 15 minutes. Not great, but not bad for bottom-line wort chiller.

Still looking for a better hookup, but this worked for now.

Thanks to soccerdad for the help.

And thanks to Culinarytracker for offering to help me do it the "right" way. Even though it's not the solution I'm looking for, I genuinely appreciate your offer to help another, random homebrewer on the internet. Cheers!