Long pump run

[Surly_goat]

Does anyone have long pump runs from their kettle to their fermentors? I'd like to make my fermentors stationary but it would need 30 feet of 2/5"(10mm) hose. Would love some feedback of unexpected out comes from this.

 

[bleme]

Up, down, or all lateral?

 

[Kyle]

What do you ferment in and is there a specific reason for wanting fermenters stationary?

If it's a weight issue I had a 15 gal speidel fermenter that was way too heavy to be taking in and out of a chest freezer so I just put the chest freezer on floor dollys and wheeled it to the brew stand with the fermenter already in there. Much cheaper than 30 feet of silicone tubing

 

[FunkedOut]

With this being cold side, you can use beer line instead of silicone and save some money that way.

 

[Surly_goat]

Down 3 feet.
Lateral 25
up 2 feet

Conicals hooked up to my glycol chiller. They aren't difficult to move as there only 7gallon. It's more just annoying unhooking the glycol and cords and stuff.

I think I'm more likely to move my brewing to my balcony and just pump water from a bucket for the chiller and get the last few degrees with glycol chiller in the fermenter.