Double Pipe Wort Chiller

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:44 pm

This article is in the next issue of BYO: http://byo.com/stories/issue/item/2849- ... r-projects

I think it's a pretty cool idea. The ability to take it all apart is appealing to me. Plus, I think it would be a hell of a lot easier to built ultimately than a regular coiled CF chiller.

Post by **mr x** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:55 pm

I've thought about building something like that but out of copper. And a fair bit bigger.

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:18 pm

With the inside being copper, what advantage would it be to make the exterior out of copper?

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Post by **mr x** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:22 pm

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:45 pm

Hah touché salesman.

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Post by **mr x** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:49 pm

Also, I was thinking of having a continuous slope from start to finish, which is easier to do with copper, unless you made one long chiller, which I also considered...

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 12:03 am

Sloping would be helpful.. It would be great to run it off gravity.

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jeffsmith · Post by **jeffsmith** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 12:44 am

That article really caught my eye as well.

adams81 · Post by **adams81** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:50 am

The idea of being able to mount it on a wall is pretty cool.

GuingesRock · Post by **GuingesRock** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:03 am

How do you clean and sanitize those kind of things? and is it worth the trouble of doing that versus wort chiller. There are some, (no-chillers) who wouldn't understand something like that at all.

Only asking so I can consider my options in an informed way. It seems like a good idea, but I'm trying to get my head around it.

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:25 am

My thought would be to visually look down the pipes and run a brush if need be. Also easier to build.

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Post by **mr x** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:43 am

I'd sanitize that the way I sanitize every other chiller I've had. Hot water/hot wort recirced to kettle before chilling. Can't beat heat....

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 12:57 pm

I'm more thinking if you began having infection issues, it would be easy to take it apart and reassure yourself that it's not the chiller. I'm a visual type person. I get nervous when I can't look at things haha.

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jason.loxton · Post by **jason.loxton** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:07 pm

Couldn't help but think this (posted by someone else earlier) is relevant here: http://halifax.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell ... Z519486408" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:20 pm

It would be tricky to convert that I think. Plus copper has better heat transfer.

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jason.loxton · Post by **jason.loxton** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:48 pm

Yeah. I looked up the thermal conductivity values of stainless vs. copper after posting. I was surprised. I knew copper was better, but not *that* much better.

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:08 pm

Yeah it's a pretty poor conductor relatively speaking.

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