Built an immersion chiller

[RubberToe]

It was a pain using my CFC gravity feeding from my stove top. I got tired of ice baths and on my last brew I used a horribly long snow bath in my sink. This chiller is made from 20' of 3/8" tubing with some 1/2" fittings and pipe. It should get the job done in my 5 gallon pot. All parts cost a total of $44 at Home Depot.


Immersion Chiller by Hot Pepper Daddy, on Flickr

[CorneliusAlphonse]

I like the elbows and larger vertical pipe. it makes it look sturdier and neater than a lot of immersion chillers.

like this one:

[GAM]

Nice build.

Sandy

[mr x]

Nice on the top one, lmfao@liam.

[Jimmy]

I like the elbows and larger vertical pipe. it makes it look sturdier and neater than a lot of immersion chillers.

like this one:

How'd you get a picture of my chiller?

[Jimmy]

It was a pain using my CFC gravity feeding from my stove top. I got tired of ice baths and on my last brew I used a horribly long snow bath in my sink. This chiller is made from 20' of 3/8" tubing with some 1/2" fittings and pipe. It should get the job done in my 5 gallon pot. All parts cost a total of $44 at Home Depot.


Immersion Chiller by Hot Pepper Daddy, on Flickr

Nice looking build

[RubberToe]

Thanks, guys. Also LOL at the spaghetti chiller!

[KMcK]

Nice job Rasp, but I like Corny's better!

[homebrewcrew]

Like the picture of the second chiller much better looks more effective.

[RubberToe]

Like the picture of the second chiller much better looks more effective.

It has way more surface area!

[ratchet]

Nice, clean looking chiller.


just so you know... you'll get slightly higher cooling effeciency if that chiller sits in the top half of your boil kettle than if it sits in the bottom.

The hot wort will raise to the top of the pot... so if the chiller sits on the bottom, you'll have a cool zone there.

[akr71]

I like the elbows and larger vertical pipe. it makes it look sturdier and neater than a lot of immersion chillers.

like this one:

How'd you get a picture of my chiller?

Looks a lot like mine too!

[RubberToe]

Nice, clean looking chiller.


just so you know... you'll get slightly higher cooling effeciency if that chiller sits in the top half of your boil kettle than if it sits in the bottom.

The hot wort will raise to the top of the pot... so if the chiller sits on the bottom, you'll have a cool zone there.

Yeah good point. I'll be spreading out the coils a bit as well, and running the cold water from top to bottom for the same reason you describe.