How do you chill your wort?

I use an immersion chiller for chilling the wort after the boil. I made an immersion chiller out of soft copper tubing. I wrapped it around a corny keg and added some compression fittings.

How do you chill your wort after the boil?

Therminator

I use a Maxi-Chiller that bought in the mid 1990’s…

About 2 years ago I bought a Therminator which is still sitting in the box…

Maybe I should use that a couple times eh?

Sabco Chill-Wizzard

I use a copper immersion chiller.

I use the first few gallons of the water ( which is warmest ) and fill a plastic tub with Oxyclean and PBW then use that to clean my equipment.  Then I use the rest to water the garden, flowers, kids, etc ( it’s cooled down considerably by then so please don’t call child services).

B3 Super Chiller (50’ 1/2" copper).  Chills my 5 gallon batches down to 60F in about 15 minutes.

50’ of 1/2" copper along with a March pump to whirlpool to wort. I start with tap water until I reach 100 and then switch to ice water.

40’ copper IC double wrapped.  Once around a coffee can & once around a 5 gallon pail.  My well water is ~54F year round so it cools great.  I manually whirlpool & fill a party tub with hot water for cleaning stuff later. Once its full I run it outside onto the yard. It cools 10 gallons to ~60 in about 20 minutes.  Some day I’ll add a march pump to whirlpool & other duties.

Well water is great. I’m jealous.

25’ immersion chiller.  Gets it down to ~60 in 20 minutes, depending on the time of year it may be quicker.  My well water is ~  45 - 50F.

I use a 50 ft. 3/8" immersion chiller with recirculation.  I pump wort out of the kettle and back over the chiller.  With my well water, the other day I went from boiling to 58F in under 15 min.

Give it a shot! I use one, with city tap water, 10 gal from boiling to ale pitch temp in 10 min on a gravity system w/ 2.5 ft. of head. I love it. 8)

Time to upgrade I guess. I’ve got a 20’ 3/8" with a $20 pond pump to recirculate . Takes forever compared to the rest of you guys.

-OCD

A 50 ft 3/8 double coil imersion chiller which doubles as my aeration system, and it works really well on some really big beers.

Fred

60’ 3/8" softcopper I coiled around a 3lb coffee can.  It takes about 15 min for 10 gallons in the summer.

$45.

Uh  . . yeah, you magpie of brew thingys :slight_smile:

How 'bout a pic of yer cornie stash for old times sake!  ;D

My mom bought this for my birthday the year I started brewing and I still use it to this day.

http://www.heartshomebrew.com/home_brew_beer.cgi?cart_id=5909070.30709*GB7H81&p_id=9002&xm=on&ppinc=dave2full
Funny thing was she gave it to me when I stopped over in Orlando for a flight to Key West. I travelled on flights to and from Key West with this in my bags. Wonder if the TSA would let me do that today!

50’ immersion chiller w/whirlpool and VT well water.  Can cool a 5gal batch in under 10 minutes.  Love that I don’t have to worry about cleaning the insides of a plate or CFC chiller.

I’ve been using a plate chiller for a little while now but I fashioned another IC that I think I’ll use in conjunction with the plate chiller.  The plate chiller works fine but I think using an IC in the brewkeg might lessen the amount of break material going into the fermenter.

50’ 3/8" IC

65f well water >:( so I can only get to 70f in a reasonable amount of time. Finish it off in the chest freezer.