kombat
Well-Known Member
My local home brew club is doing a group buy for some DudaDiesel plate chillers, and I'm considering picking one up. Up until now, I've been using a homemade copper immersion chiller that takes about 20-30 minutes to chill 5 gallons of beer. The plate chiller I'm looking at would chill that same 5 gallons in about 2.5 minutes.
I'm assuming that's plenty fast in order to achieve a good "cold break." My question is, where would that "cold break" material manifest? Wouldn't it end up inside the chiller? How do you clean it out? Is there a risk of it clogging while I'm in the middle of chilling a batch? Or will it materialize in the fermenter, after it's exited the chiller?
How does this work, anyway? What happens with the cold break material when using a plate chiller?
I'm assuming that's plenty fast in order to achieve a good "cold break." My question is, where would that "cold break" material manifest? Wouldn't it end up inside the chiller? How do you clean it out? Is there a risk of it clogging while I'm in the middle of chilling a batch? Or will it materialize in the fermenter, after it's exited the chiller?
How does this work, anyway? What happens with the cold break material when using a plate chiller?