Pumps and CFC

[Svenhook]

Do you need a pump to use a CFC? Does gravity feeding it not work?

 

[broadbill]

I gravity feed through my CFC, but it requires carrying 6 gallons of near-boiling wort up onto a landing and putting my CFC and fermenter under it.

 

[Svenhook]

I am building an electric keggle right now. If I were to brew in that and then use a CFC and gravity feed it straight into the fermenter, will the wort be cooled close to pitching temps?

 

[jww9618]

That depends on your coolant temp more than anything.

 

[wyzazz]

Yep, no way to tell you if it will be cool enough on one pass, you will get close to your groundwater temp but usually not all the way there. You can do a test with boiling water and your hose water to make sure.

Things to look out for:
1. Make sure your wort and coolant water are running in opposite directions.
2. Don't run the wort full throttle in to the fermenter, choke the ball valve on your kettle down until you get the temps you want.

 

[Svenhook]

Thanks for the tips. Think im gonna start building a CFC here shortly. Trying to get my all-grain set up ready to go