My brand new homemade wort chiller

[mathieu]

Designed and built in an hour or so.

Any thoughts on this guys? If I was to build another one, what should I modify?



(I know, it goes INTO the pot! )

[GAM]

Try the pic again.

Sandy

[mathieu]

What do you mean sandy?

[mr x]

Pic isn't showing.

[mathieu]

The 2 pipes going up are the inlet and outlet. They don't have connectors on them yet.

[mr x]

We still can't see the image.

[mathieu]

Oh, that is what you meant! Sorry, my bad. Is it fixed now?

[Dirt Chicken]

mmmm, thick wallet!!

[GAM]

Looks good. Nice bends.

Mine looks like it was made by a racoon.

I'll look and see if I have 3/8 to hose fittings.

Sandy

[GAM]

All I have is 1/4 compression.

Sorry.

Sandy

[mathieu]

mmmm, thick wallet!!

40$+tx of copper coil. Not that bad.

[mathieu]

Looks good. Nice bends.

Mine looks like it was made by a racoon.

I'll look and see if I have 3/8 to hose fittings.

Sandy

Thanks for your help, but I'll pass... I'm a couple of hundreds km from the Atlantic (sshhh! Don't tell anyone!)

[CorneliusAlphonse]

mmmm, thick wallet!!

40$+tx of copper coil. Not that bad.

where did you buy the coil? seems pretty cheap to me

[mathieu]

Liam, I got it at Canac in Quebec.

They sell copper for 1$/ft but you can buy the complete 50' coil for 40$.

[ryantr0n]

Liam, I got it at Canac in Quebec.

They sell copper for 1$/ft but you can buy the complete 50' coil for 40$.

I could live with that deal.. that's pretty much free!

[Dirt Chicken]

thats a pretty awesome deal!!! Only way it could be better is if they fuck up at the checkout and charge you $2.50 for 50'.

[Tony L]

Cheap copper all right.

Not sure if you need all that in 3/8 copper. Not sure if the last few feet will do much cooling, but it certainly won't hurt.
BTW, neat job bending that.

[mathieu]

Dirt Chicken, I wished they enter 1x 1' @ 1$... didn't happen!

Tony, that was one of my concern. It probably depends on the temperature of the water going in. If it's way under the wort temp, I guess it will be more efficient at the beginning.

I probably have a couple of feet too many for straight tap water, but if I cool it in ice, the extra feet will help. My 2 cents. Maybe I'm way in the left field on this one.

[Tony L]

[quote="mathieu"
Tony, that was one of my concern. It probably depends on the temperature of the water going in. If it's way under the wort temp, I guess it will be more efficient at the beginning.)[/quote]


My guess is that it would be great anyway. I have a long 3/8 one also .... not quite 40 ft.. and am wishing for a 1/2 inch one. More surface area = more cooling potential, all thing being equal.

[mathieu]

I tried it and it worked well. Didn't note how fast it chilled my wort, I'll do it next time!