Immersion coil direction

[Kinsman]

I bought 50' of 3/8" soft copper to make an immersion chiller. Right now i'm busy wrapping it around a keg to make a nice coil.

Should my nice cold well water flow from the bottom of the coil to the top and out to the lawn?

 

[Jaybird]

Mine does. But the most important thing when using an immersion chiller is to keep the wort in motion and chilling time will get cut down by 1/2. So that said. Its not going to matter what direction you run the water.

Cheers
Jay

 

[HDIr0n]

I have tried both ways in terms of which line to send cold water to, and I have found that if I run the cold water to the top first and then the hot out the lowest coil that it does work marginally better from my notes. I haven't done a side by side, but both times they were the same amount of wort and hot as hades here in Texas. One was only 5 min faster to my pitching temp. Whirlpooling with a pump while cooling helps a lot.

-G

 

[Beernik]

My old one was top down. My new one is bottom up. I like the bottom up better.

I can't really compare cooling times though. The new one is twice as long and I connect the old one to it, put it in a bucket of ice, and use it as a pre-chiller.

 

[day_trippr]

[...]the most important thing when using an immersion chiller is to keep the wort in motion and chilling time will get cut down by 1/2. So that said. Its not going to matter what direction you run the water.

This.

Cheers!

 

[HootervilleHops]

In australia it should flow counter-clockwise. But in North America it should be clockwise.

 

[Kinsman]

Aussies.


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