Diy Parallel Counterflow Wort Chiller

Use of the unit is simple.

Diy parallel counterflow wort chiller. Attach a drain hose to the tee at the other end. Besides for plate chillers which i don t think would work well in my brewery design there were also not many counterflow wort chillers available in canada at the time. To buy the sort of counterflow wort chiller i wanted i would have to order from the us which i m not keen on. Then cold water is run through the copper tubing which in turn cools the wort making it ready to put in the final fermentation bucket and pitch the yeast right away.

The chiller is a basic tube within a tube design. This is a brief description of a diy parallel flow heat exchanger i made for chilling wort. Insert the tube into the reducer tee and allow the tee to fit over the shell. Place the npt threaded endings onto both open ends.

Position the chiller to direct the wort outlet tube at your fermentor. The key to its function is the fitting that allows connection of the input and output hoses and tubes and connects and seals all of the components of the wort reservoir and cooling jacket. Attach the wort inlet to your kettle spigot pump or temperature safe racking tube. The common wort chiller is basically made of a bunch of loops of copper tubing that is suspended in the wort.

Insert one of the small pipes into the open reducer openings. To use your new diy wort chiller immerse the chiller in the boiling kettle when you have around 10 minutes of boil time remaining to ensure tubing is sterilized by the time it s time for cooling. Using a counterflow chiller. Put the 90 degree elbow on that pipe.

So in the summer of 2014 i set out to make one myself. My version of a wort chiller is know as a counter flow chiller cfc which runs the wort through straight 1 2 copper pipe that is encased by straight 3 4 pipe. Insert the other small pipe into the elbow. Attach a cold water hose to the tee at the wort outlet side of the chiller.

How to diy counter flow wort chiller duration. If you don t have a wort chiller you generally need to let the wort. One advantage to this design is the 1 2 diameter of the tubing. Once boiling has finished connect your water source to the entrance tube point the exit tube to a drain and let the water flow.