Done with the plate chiller....

[thekraken]

$300 counterflow?

 

[augiedoggy]

LOL. I can't recall what I paid for the Terminator...whatever they charge on morebeer for it. I was talking about $300 on a counterflow. My homework skills....shut your mouth boy.

By the way, I have never once clogged my Therminator, so you're off base there too. I've brewed huge IPAs chilled with it and not a single clog.

I hate it because it never seems to empty of water and wort no matter what I do.

your the one that made the statement implying you paid $300 for the one you already have.. when you said " the next time I want to drop$300 for a chiller I only use twice a month" ... To me it seems your just backpedaling here making the rest of your statement less credible but that just how I see it.

The friend I brew with often have a therminator and he brews IPAS with it as well with no hop filter , just whirlpooling and has fought with flow slowing to a trickle as a result. The crazy amount of threads and anti plate chiller sentiment also supports this very real phonominum of self inflicted problems when allowing too much hop matter into the chiller.

And really you hate because it's difficult to let the water run out of it?. Well that's a new one... and likely an issue isolated to the model chiller that you have as I have no such issues with my permanently mounted plate chiller

 

[augiedoggy]

I don't want to hijack the thread but how would this do straining break material and hop material as I'm racking to a fermenter? I have bigmouth bubblers so I could hang this on the rim and rack into it.

I'm not afraid of the trub--I usually dump it all in--but since I'm using fermenters with spigots, reducing what goes into the fermenter so it doesn't come near the spigot is something I'd like to do. Generally not a problem but this looks like an easy way to capture some of that stuff.

it would plug VERY quickly and fill to the top.. I know this from experience.

 

[normonster]

$300 counterflow?

Yes. Well, I have the Qds, valve and thermo so $239 I guess.

 

[normonster]

your the one that made the statement implying you paid $300 for the one you already have.. when you said " the next time I want to drop$300 for a chiller I only use twice a month" ... To me it seems your just backpedaling here making the rest of your statement less credible but that just how I see it.
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Recmmmendation - buy a counterflow.

I have a Therminator and while I manage to keep it flowing I still hate it. Makes me nervous!!! I'm also moving to a counterflow chiller the next time I want to drop $300 on something I only use once a month.

Dude, what is your problem. Less credible? What credibility is required to make a comment like this: I don't like my therminator becasue it makes me nervous that I can't get all the liquid out. Just shut up already.

And if your buddy is using a plate chiller with no hop screen of any sort, well, he's a doof. I bet you guys are just a barrel of monkeys together.

 

[thekraken]

Yes. Well, I have the Qds, valve and thermo so $239 I guess.

At the risk of being called a boy: if you do a little homework you can find a 12' convoluted all copper cfc for ~$150. I got one off of homebrewsupply.com with a promotional discount code.

 

[normonster]

@thekraken - Way to do your homework man! I'm proud of you for your internet navigation skills..and applying a promo code...oah man, you're light years ahead of the game. W. gave you guys a bad rap...you dun real gewd.

 

[thekraken]

You're welcome, guy.

I guess the prospect of saving $90 is offensive to some people... Learn something new every day.

 

[hio3791]

Came here to talk about my chiller but I think I rather get popcorn, sit and have a beer.

Please carry on.

 

[augiedoggy]

Dude, what is your problem. Less credible? What credibility is required to make a comment like this: I don't like my therminator becasue it makes me nervous that I can't get all the liquid out. Just shut up already.

And if your buddy is using a plate chiller with no hop screen of any sort, well, he's a doof. I bet you guys are just a barrel of monkeys together.

Your quote was worded slightly different because I was quoting from memory but it still implies the same thing when you said "the next time I" which implies you already did it once.. Its pretty obvious you need to work on your big boy communication skills here so I guess can see how you made the mistake.

 

[passedpawn]

I really hate my Duda Diesel plate chiller.....really hate it. I think it has clogged every single time I've brewed with it no matter what I do. I brewed a batch this evening with 4oz of pellet hops that were in Lowe's paint strainer bags and it still clogged from the stuff that made it through the bag. I know a lot of people use plate chillers, there must be something I'm doing wrong.. I flushed the damn thing out after the last time it clogged and it seemed to be flowing freely so I don't think it was old hop debris that caused the problem. Thinking about buying a counterflow chiller, any recommendations?

I like this CFC from JaDeD. It's cleanable, which is a big plus for me. I still have a Therminator plate chiller, which treated me well for a lot of years, but I've always been uncomfortable with the stuff that comes out of it a couple of weeks after I used it, regardless of how I cleaned it. For lots more of my reasons for changing, and a side-by-side comparison, I'll just put this link here.

Chiller Showdown: Blichmann Therminator vs JaDeD Brewing Cyclone

 

[passedpawn]

Came here to talk about my chiller but I think I rather get popcorn, sit and have a beer.

Please carry on.

It's like this on every forum. Won't ever change. I should go in and start deleting snarky dumb comments and childish posturing and off topic crap, stuff that brings the thread and the forum down, but I don't feel like it tonight. You see them, judge for yourself. Good luck with your 2nd attempt at making the PC work, check out my link there, I've been down that path and made a change.

The members above that did these things should see that their underdeveloped communication skills have ruined the thread and forced the OP to abandon it. But they won't. They'll look at their posts, see the glory in them, and just point to the others.