Diy Recirculating Wort Chiller

The idea behind the recirculating wort chiller is to recirculate an ice bath through the coil until your wort is the correct temperature.
Diy recirculating wort chiller. Now i just wind the tubing around the paint tin right. Start chilling my ice bath about 20 minutes before i start the recirculation. Buy a few extra bags of ice just in case. The water exiting the coil is hot but it is not boiling.
After the hot wort is ran through the blichmann therminator the water is then cooled before it is dumped back into our 55 gallon drum. If you want to. Let my wort chiller run about 5 to 7 minutes just long enough to fill my empty buckets and allow the initial hot water. Start by winding the tubing around the bottom of the paint tin leaving at least 3 sticking out and unwound.
Here is our diy recirculating wort chiller setup. Prepare to use 6 gallon container for ice. Toss the used over ice and it s cold again to reuse.