I did not comment on the other 2 videos as I wanted to see them all before I said a word.That word is AWESOME Paul.You have built an indredible piece of wort cooling thingamajiggery that one day if you own a micro brewery will process cold fresh joy(beer) to thousands of people.You took your time in making it as well as filming it,which was a bit of a tease.All in all I think those 3 videos are the best instructional videos posted on RUclips for home brewing.
cheers, yeah it did take a while, I contemplated leaving a cliff hanger ending as well, "stay tuned for next weeks continuation, how to glue Plastic!" but thought better of it ;) Cheers
I'm first going to make your coiled counterflow chiller. Just to get me by. Then in a few months, over the winter, i'm going to put this thing together. Great build!
Thanks for these Paul - I was going to upgrade my immersion chiller to your counterflow version but now I've seen this beauty I'm writing a new shopping list! :-)
Cheers Matthew Mehojah, I thought it was time for an upgrade ;) the original counterflow is just as efficient but I like to tinker, and I found that the old counterflow tended to be a bit cumbersome for my setup. This parallel version is fixed on the wall, not stored under the bench.
As per my previous comments, awesome. Was brainstorming on what to use with my HERMS build that I am starting. Great stuff and great instruction. CheerZ
I also tested the cooling efficiency of my Heat Exchanger, and it work quite well, it used more water to cool due to the design, its not quite as efficient at removing heat as it is at adding heat to the wort. However it took 25ltr of boiling wort down to pitching temp via continuous recirculation in about 30min. The parallel did it in 20min though. But if you can build a heat exchanger that works for both raising MLT temps and cooling wort, then that would be cool.
Time4Another1 I built something using a 15 metre coil wrapped around a 19 liter keg then mounted it inside of a 50 liter keg and added an element in the keg also. With a inlet and outlet for the top and bottom .... so it's basically a radiator style. What I found is that it will drop the wort from boiling to 30 degrees in a single run just using constant flowing tap water in the main area. I want to recirculate, however the single ceramic pump I have doesn't have the juice to push it around. BTW I'm looking into a 2 micron aeration stone, I saw you post a view of the stone, do you have a video on how you ended up using it?
Interesting food for thought. You know when I had drawn my design I was like "tadda!" then I started watching other builds, and I keep thinking about how I can make my design more efficient and at the same time cost effective. So now I have been waffling between electric and propane (original plan). The other concern is a water source, as I don' t have one in my workshop. CheerZ
As for water, I use a good quality garden hose and have a carbon water filter at the brewing area, it's a 0.5 micro filter that removes the taste etc. that you'd expect from a garden hose. After that it's water conditioning with excellent results. One improvement was to have a ball valve at the tap end so I can leave the hose on but turn the 'tap' on and off again as required.
Cheers Chris Meek yes I will be doing a brew day video of it running. That was one reason I had a hold up in getting this series finished. I kept waiting for a brew day to get some footage, but either ran out of camera battery, got distracted, or plain forgot.
That damn string is killing me i want to reach out and pluck it off his sweater, oh, and great series. just a though if you didn't clamp the houses, it would be easy to check sanitation or even run a brush through the pipes. Oh, and righty tighty, lefty losey. good thing to remember for those times you are really hung over and have to go to work anyway. thanks.
I always wonder about contamination by copper.. All the brewing process happens inside stainless steel made things. In your case, the HEX is also copper made inside. Did you ever experience any problems with that? Of course the thermal efficiency is far away from stainless steel. Do you think it worths to have all stainless steel process? Thanks in advance! Cheers!!
IMO Copper is fine "some say actually beneficial in small amounts" pre fermentation, but once CO2 is present, and ethanol levels rise at the end of fermentation, that is when it can cause issues with your beer, metallic off flavours and oxidisation can occur. Wort isn't in contact with copper for a long time on the brewing side, but you wouldn't store beer in a copper container. Copper cleans up as well as SS with the same cleaning regime. All over the world copper has been used for our potable water plumbing too, without any ill effect. Probably the biggest decision is cosmetic, SS bling over the thermal efficiency of Copper. Cheers
I am a huge fan ever since I watched your brewhouse build videos. I have a question on this, I'm going to build your design, only with one alteration , I was thinking about using PVC compression T's instead of the brass compression fittings and regular PVC T's. The PVC compression fittings use a gasket, so I'm wondering how those would hold up to high temps?? Any thoughts on this? Thanks! Cheers!
Nicholas Houston Cheers for watching the videos. It is worth a try using a PVC compression T's, I mocked up single pipe run to test all my joints before going ahead with the whole build, so that might be a worthwhile exercise. I connected it up to my kettle and ran boiling water through it for 20min, then chilled water to cool the hot water. I repeated this 4 times to test the contraction and expansion integrity of the joints. Cheers
Time4Another1 Finally built my chiller! I ended up finding a byo article that goes over this idea as well. They were using plastic parker compression fittings. I heat tested them the other day, no leaks. The plastic compression fittings are a lot cheaper then the brass compression fittings.
Cool build but I think for the money all that stuff cost you could have bought a plate chiller. I guess maybe the whole point of this was just to build something yourself and not about cost saving's?
raiderrob672 Yerp pretty close to it, but then I would have had a bottle neck in my brewery. I use to have a plate chiller and it was a pain, it slowed down the flow, and was a difficult to get primed, plus the blockages, dang. Your right though, the main point was to tinker and build something myself. 50% of my home brewing hobby time is tinkering with stuff, 40% drinking, and 10% brewing ;) Cheers
Good in the early assai cervizera fiz my first Brassage and ainda não testei. Mas o que você está fazendo comigo parece um resfriador. Ou um filtro. You can mSou iniciante cervical homemade fiz my first Brassage and ainda não testei. Mas o que você está fazendo comigo parece um resfriador. Ou um filtro. Você pode mandar o projeto pro meu email R1reparos@gmail.com
I did not comment on the other 2 videos as I wanted to see them all before I said a word.That word is AWESOME Paul.You have built an indredible piece of wort cooling thingamajiggery that one day if you own a micro brewery will process cold fresh joy(beer) to thousands of people.You took your time in making it as well as filming it,which was a bit of a tease.All in all I think those 3 videos are the best instructional videos posted on RUclips for home brewing.
cheers, yeah it did take a while, I contemplated leaving a cliff hanger ending as well, "stay tuned for next weeks continuation, how to glue Plastic!" but thought better of it ;) Cheers
By painting it black you would never know it is PVC piping. Another great build from you sir. Great job, thanks for posting. Cheers!
Cheers Larry, after seeing your kegarator all painted up black, I was inspired.
Great short movies, gone try to make one during the cold dark winter for my brewery.
Tomas Lundell awesome
Great Tutorials. I've learned quite a bit. Hopefully and eventually I'll build something as nice as that.
Thanks!
I'm first going to make your coiled counterflow chiller. Just to get me by. Then in a few months, over the winter, i'm going to put this thing together. Great build!
Cheers Jason, let me know how you go with it.
Thanks for these Paul - I was going to upgrade my immersion chiller to your counterflow version but now I've seen this beauty I'm writing a new shopping list! :-)
nice twice, just got done building the other counter flow chiller you had up, will put this one on the to do list.
Cheers Matthew Mehojah, I thought it was time for an upgrade ;) the original counterflow is just as efficient but I like to tinker, and I found that the old counterflow tended to be a bit cumbersome for my setup. This parallel version is fixed on the wall, not stored under the bench.
Excellent idea, excellent execution. Will build one when I feel up to it!
The helical wire wrapping increases turbulence in the gap between the pipes.
As per my previous comments, awesome. Was brainstorming on what to use with my HERMS build that I am starting. Great stuff and great instruction. CheerZ
I also tested the cooling efficiency of my Heat Exchanger, and it work quite well, it used more water to cool due to the design, its not quite as efficient at removing heat as it is at adding heat to the wort. However it took 25ltr of boiling wort down to pitching temp via continuous recirculation in about 30min. The parallel did it in 20min though. But if you can build a heat exchanger that works for both raising MLT temps and cooling wort, then that would be cool.
Time4Another1
I built something using a 15 metre coil wrapped around a 19 liter keg then mounted it inside of a 50 liter keg and added an element in the keg also. With a inlet and outlet for the top and bottom .... so it's basically a radiator style. What I found is that it will drop the wort from boiling to 30 degrees in a single run just using constant flowing tap water in the main area. I want to recirculate, however the single ceramic pump I have doesn't have the juice to push it around. BTW I'm looking into a 2 micron aeration stone, I saw you post a view of the stone, do you have a video on how you ended up using it?
Interesting food for thought. You know when I had drawn my design I was like "tadda!" then I started watching other builds, and I keep thinking about how I can make my design more efficient and at the same time cost effective. So now I have been waffling between electric and propane (original plan). The other concern is a water source, as I don' t have one in my workshop. CheerZ
As for water, I use a good quality garden hose and have a carbon water filter at the brewing area, it's a 0.5 micro filter that removes the taste etc. that you'd expect from a garden hose. After that it's water conditioning with excellent results. One improvement was to have a ball valve at the tap end so I can leave the hose on but turn the 'tap' on and off again as required.
As always job well done Paul. Can't wait to get crackin' on mine!
great instructional set of vids ... something like this would look great in my new brewery. Thanks Paul. Cheers
Cheers, looking forward to seeing what you come up with Viv
Nice Paul. Thanks for sharind. CHEERS!
Awesome build! Been waiting a while to see this video series, and you did not disappoint! Thanks for sharing and inspiring! Cheers!
Cheers, I hoped that I managed to cover everything, thats why it took a while ;)
Cheers for the vid man ! Pretty nice set up, i'll try that kind of thing myself when i'll have a bit of time.
cheers
Very nice series, Paul. Are you planning on doing a brew day video using it when you get the march pump installed. That would be cool as hell.
Cheers Chris Meek yes I will be doing a brew day video of it running. That was one reason I had a hold up in getting this series finished. I kept waiting for a brew day to get some footage, but either ran out of camera battery, got distracted, or plain forgot.
Thanks for the vid bloke, extremely well done & appreciate the share. Cheers.
Great job and great tips along the way. Pro job. Cheers
Cheers Grant
Gostei do equipamento, gostaria de saber se realmente, quanto tempo dura o resfriamento?
Eu logo vou construir o meu
I liked the equipment, would like to know if really, how long does the cooling take place?
I'll soon build mine
One word - brilliant
Cheers - also one word ;)
great job, hows it working for you?
could this be gravity fed?
That damn string is killing me i want to reach out and pluck it off his sweater, oh, and great series. just a though if you didn't clamp the houses, it would be easy to check sanitation or even run a brush through the pipes. Oh, and righty tighty, lefty losey. good thing to remember for those times you are really hung over and have to go to work anyway. thanks.
I always wonder about contamination by copper.. All the brewing process happens inside stainless steel made things. In your case, the HEX is also copper made inside. Did you ever experience any problems with that? Of course the thermal efficiency is far away from stainless steel. Do you think it worths to have all stainless steel process? Thanks in advance! Cheers!!
IMO Copper is fine "some say actually beneficial in small amounts" pre fermentation, but once CO2 is present, and ethanol levels rise at the end of fermentation, that is when it can cause issues with your beer, metallic off flavours and oxidisation can occur. Wort isn't in contact with copper for a long time on the brewing side, but you wouldn't store beer in a copper container. Copper cleans up as well as SS with the same cleaning regime. All over the world copper has been used for our potable water plumbing too, without any ill effect. Probably the biggest decision is cosmetic, SS bling over the thermal efficiency of Copper. Cheers
I am a huge fan ever since I watched your brewhouse build videos. I have a question on this, I'm going to build your design, only with one alteration , I was thinking about using PVC compression T's instead of the brass compression fittings and regular PVC T's. The PVC compression fittings use a gasket, so I'm wondering how those would hold up to high temps?? Any thoughts on this? Thanks! Cheers!
Nicholas Houston Cheers for watching the videos. It is worth a try using a PVC compression T's, I mocked up single pipe run to test all my joints before going ahead with the whole build, so that might be a worthwhile exercise. I connected it up to my kettle and ran boiling water through it for 20min, then chilled water to cool the hot water. I repeated this 4 times to test the contraction and expansion integrity of the joints. Cheers
Time4Another1 Finally built my chiller! I ended up finding a byo article that goes over this idea as well. They were using plastic parker compression fittings. I heat tested them the other day, no leaks. The plastic compression fittings are a lot cheaper then the brass compression fittings.
Cool build but I think for the money all that stuff cost you could have bought a plate chiller. I guess maybe the whole point of this was just to build something yourself and not about cost saving's?
raiderrob672 Yerp pretty close to it, but then I would have had a bottle neck in my brewery. I use to have a plate chiller and it was a pain, it slowed down the flow, and was a difficult to get primed, plus the blockages, dang. Your right though, the main point was to tinker and build something myself. 50% of my home brewing hobby time is tinkering with stuff, 40% drinking, and 10% brewing ;) Cheers
Good in the early assai cervizera fiz my first Brassage and ainda não testei. Mas o que você está fazendo comigo parece um resfriador. Ou um filtro. You can mSou iniciante cervical homemade fiz my first Brassage and ainda não testei. Mas o que você está fazendo comigo parece um resfriador. Ou um filtro. Você pode mandar o projeto pro meu email R1reparos@gmail.com