The specification only says "pliable polymer", but exactly what is it made of? To be more specific I would like to know what temperature it can handle? Is it food grade? If it's food grade, to which temperature is it food grade? Ie can I run boiling hot water through the water path? And then use the water afterwards?

Since I usually make small 2.5-gallon batches, I just put my brew kettle into an ice bath in my kitchen sink to chill. The notes that came with my extract kit say to cool the wort to 70 degrees "as fast as possible to prevent an infection." But how fast specifically should that be? Using the ice bath method and continually adding ice as the old ice melts still takes about 30 - 40 minutes to get from boiling to …

I'm starting to homebrew and noticed that during the cooling process A LOT of water is used going through the counterflow chiller. I'm on a well, and I'd like to minimize water usage, especially during the summer. I also don't have a drain near where I chill, so I end up having to fill buckets and dump them (sure some can be used for cleaning, but it's A LOT of water). My idea is to use a pond pump to …

I'm considering getting one of those "Therminator" style wort chillers as an upgrade to the coil. I plan on gravity feeding the wort through and pumping back into the kettle until my wort is nice and lukewarm. The specs seem impressive, but it also looks like this thing would be hell to clean, and a bit annoying to sanitize, and I can't help but think bits and pieces of hops would easily clog this thing. Am I being paranoid?

I am building an immersion chiller (following this tutorial). Looking at hose pipes online I was surprised to find them rated for temperature. Standard garden hose seems to be up to 40C (104F) and 'heavy duty' hose up to ~50C (122F). All the tutorials I have looked at just mention hose pipe without mentioning anything about temperature rating. The chap in the one I am following just grabbed some from the garden.. I have no idea how hot the water …

I was recently doing a batch of beer and for some reason the temp of the beer after I put it in the primary fermentation bucket wasn't low enough to pinch the yeast right away. I left the top off of the bucket a little bit to try and cool it faster but it was "exposed" for probably about an hour at least. My question is will this mess up the beer? or should it be ok.

I am in the process of building a fermentation temperature controller (in the same spirit as the grainfather glycol chiller), the process is mostly done and I am testing the system with water. The heat exchange is made through a hand-bent copper tubing plunged in the fermentation vessel; the problem is, after a day or two, the water inside the vessel takes a light yellow tint and there is a rust spot at the bottom of the vessel (the chiller …

Has anyone tried using a classic water cooler (images provided below) as wort chiller? Besides being extra careful with sanitary issues, what could be other problems faced? Thanks! https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRg4Xz3ODlvlwuaHvCEr4t0_GXprxmRcA_mAAvVIWOEnYjXr2Yz8sLtgLmv

I'm assembling an HERMS equipment and noticed that very few people use the coil as chiller after the boiling is over. Besides all the sanitation of tubing, lines, pump, etc..., is there any other drawbacks? EDIT: The coil will be permanently attached to the kettle and brewing two batches in a single day is never going to happen. I have no space to ferment two beers at the same time.

I haven't had the chance to brew in about two years and I've been storing my copper wort chiller in a storage locker for most of that time. Upon moving and retrieving it yesterday, it's got some really interesting coloration on it. The bronzed color is worn off in little splotches and circles here and there. I'm not sure what caused it (be it storage with too much access to the air or improper cleaning the only time I used …

I am looking into building a copper immersion chiller for use on my next batch of beer. I plan on doing a sour ale. Will the low PH of the wort have any negative affect on the chiller? Will it cause the metal to leech extra particles, possibly causing off flavors?

I just bought 30 feet (~10m) of 3/8'' (9.5mm) copper tube, and before coiling it, I would like to get advice if it will work for a 10 gal (~50l) batch, what I'm asking for is if anyone has had experience cooling 10 gal(~50l) batches with a 25 or 30 feet chiller (I still can go back to the store -which is far away from home- and buy some more tube) This answer from @BobTheAverage seems to say 30 feet …

Will a 50 feet copper immersion wort chiller chill twice as fast as a 25 feet? I was thinking that once the water has absorbed all the heat it can, it doesn't matter how long it will travel in the tubbing. So what is the ideal length ?

After doing a bit of Googling for pumps in order to circulate water through a wort chiller (it being below freezing outside in Maine, I'm worried about using our outside hose hookup for water), I saw a few people say that they'd used the Flotec FP0F360AC Utility Pump. Picked one up at Home Depot today for ~$85 or so, got home and discovered three unfortunate things in the manual. First, it specifically mentions that the output side shouldn't be under …

I'm considering brewing indoors this weekend, instead of my usual outdoor process in warmer times of the year. Since the last time I brewed indoors, I've replaced my kitchen sink's faucet with one to which I'm reluctant to try to attach the wort chiller (immersion - copper coil). A pond pump for recirculating water through the chiller is in my future plans, but that's not going to happen before this upcoming brew day. I have a utility sink in the …

As far as I know, DMS is only created above 60°C, so fast cooling after boil is important. My times for 26 liters boil, with homemade immersion chiller (8mm copper pipe) are: 7 minutes to 55°C (20 liters of cold water used) 20 minutes to 35°C (60 liters of cold water used total) I can't find any data to compare my results with. Is this good? Bad? What it should be?

There are some new gadgets that allow to chill the beer as fast as 2 min. It's not rocket science, just a more efficient way to increase heat transfer by rotating the desired object (link below provides more details). So i was thinking about using this same principle by putting ice inside a laundry machine and then putting the wort inside a closed container. This would chill the wort very fast and there's the bonus of a massive aeration. Have …

What is the best configuration where you can decrease your chilling time/increase efficiency. I know this is a bit loaded so let me clarify. I have the standard issue 20' copper 3/8'' garden hose counter flow chiller. Works great but I want to get the most out of it and shorten my brew day. I currently get 10 gallons down to 70 F using 58 F water (hose 1/2 way open) in about 25 minutes. I know there are different …

What is the best temperature to stop the pump in an immersion whirlpool chiller ? And what about the time to wait the trub settling vs wort temperature ? Consider both Ale and Lager.

I have just put another beer in the fermentor and I seem to use huge amounts of water during the whole brewing process. I don't have an exact estimate of my water use, but taking into account the washing of equipment, brewing water, wort chiller etc. it must run into many gallons. Besides the expense, this is not great for the environment. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to improve on water usage?