Plate Chiller with 300 micron filter.

[wyowolf]

I just bought a 20 plate chiller from Duda Diesel. I also bought a 6x14 300 micron filter. I was thinking of using it a bit differently. I would do a normal boil and brew like always, usually 10 gallons but sometimes 5.

I want to know if doing a whirlpool and then using the filter draw off the wort from inside the filter? Meaning I am only using the filter to run though the plate chiller with the pump? and just leaving the hops in the boil like normal?

Just curious if anyone has used it this way before?

 

[augiedoggy]

I have both the same filter and chiller... and my guess is the filter would fill too slowly as the screen plugged up quickly... it drains very slowly and overflows easily when I tried pumping wort into the top of it while there was a couple of oz of hops in it...

 

[wyowolf]

Finally got around to trying these out. I got the 20 plate long chiller from Duda Diesel and the 300 micro filter. I must say the filter worked as advertised. held 6 ounces hops no problem, I did make an effort to make sure that plenty of wort flowed though it to extract all i could.

The plate chiller... just WOW.... 10 gal cooled to 56 degrees as fast as I could pump it out! just amazing. I did a whirlpool and let it sit a bit then just pumped it out... amazing.

Cleaning was fine, back flushed with PBW and hot water then blew out with CO2...

just amazing...