OVHA Chat

I'm just about to build an immersion wort chiller, and I'm looking for 25ft of copper. What I see around town (lowes, home depot, ace) is 50ft coils.

So, I'm looking for another source, or for someone that wants to split the cost.

Ideas? Takers?

I know they sell a lot of 25' 1/2" copper chillers but you might want to consider going a little bigger.
I built my first wort chiller from 25' of 1/2 " copper ..
By the time you have @ 2' on each end coming out of the pot that gives you 21 ' to cool with.
It worked ok, (15-25 minutes) in the winter /spring time but in the summer it ended up taking too long, so I took another 25' and coiled it inside the original coils and teed the inlets together and that made a big difference.

I now use a Terminator (plate-type wort chiller) and my copper is just collecting dust, you are welcome to borrow this and try it out before you build yours if you want.

Don

http://cgi.ebay.com/Huge-wort-chiller-f ... 7C294%3A50
I saw this on Ebay today. It doesn't say if it's 1/2 or 3/8" copper but 50' of copper already rolled with Garden hose attachment, 8' discharge hose for $32 and I checked shipping to Evansville was $12.

Seems too low to be true.
$43 shipped... This might be worth checking out!

Don

Hay,consider this.Buy the 50' roll and use 1/2 to make an emersion chiller and the other 1/2 to make a pre chiller to go into a 5 or 10 gallon water cooler for pre chilling your chilling water.Sounds like too many chillings in one sentence. :lol:Some people don't have enough chillings and they have to adopt one

I ended up getting a really good deal on a 50-ft roll of 3/8" that had a few feet cut off of it, from Ace Hardware on the north side. I told them the price per ft was too much, and they worked it down to a really reasonable price.

I used it last week on my first all-grain. Worked like a charm, had the wort under 80F in about 14 minutes.

Good deals are out there, and you never know where it might be. This is a hobby that can be done on the cheap. The only limits are your patience, and your imagination to fabricate equipment you need. It's amazing how much brewing "stuff" you can collect over the years.

I got mine down to 78*in about 15 minutes.Getting from there to 67*with 72* water was the real problem .Need to re think my ice bath.I WILL suck seed eventually !

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