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Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:27 pm
by 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
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:08 pm
by 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:
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:16 pm
by GAM
Nice build.
Sandy
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:20 pm
by mr x
Nice on the top one, lmfao@liam.
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:22 pm
by Jimmy
CorneliusAlphonse wrote: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?
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:23 pm
by Jimmy
Rasp wrote: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
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:36 pm
by RubberToe
Thanks, guys. Also LOL at the spaghetti chiller!
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:16 am
by KMcK
Nice job Rasp, but I like Corny's better!
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:14 am
by homebrewcrew
Like the picture of the second chiller much better looks more effective.
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:18 am
by RubberToe
homebrewcrew wrote:Like the picture of the second chiller much better looks more effective.
It has way more surface area!
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:00 am
by 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.
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:02 am
by akr71
Jimmy wrote:CorneliusAlphonse wrote: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!
Re: Built an immersion chiller
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:03 am
by RubberToe
ratchet wrote: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.