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What is a wort chiller? A wort chiller is a heat exchanger designed to cool your wort to yeast pitch-able temperatures at a rapid rate, forming the cold break. A copper immersion chiller is a copper coil that is attached to a garden hose or kitchen sink, where cool water runs internally through the coils and is immersed in the hot wort. The heat from the wort is conducted by the copper and expelled through the chiller's outlet tube, which cools the wort in an extremely efficiently manner. Immersion chillers are most popular among homebrewers.
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Don’t buy. Leaks the cooling water into your wort.
Don’t buy. Got one, it leaked at one of the connectors and the water ran down the copper tubing which means it would be leaking into the wort. Exchanged it for another and the 2nd leaked even worse. Leaked from both connections.
I bought this for something else, too cool water. Used a cooler with ice water, dropped a fish pump in to pump cold water through. As long as I had ice water, my reservoir stayed wherever I set it.. I bought a temp control. Very cool. Better than a chiller if you have unlimited ice, no heat, hardly any power. But fill ice every 2 ta 3 days. I bought a chiller lol. But this is great for what it's for. I used it, again to cool my hydroponics, it worked!!! Just lots of ice to keep it working, and I don't have a good deep freeze
I know the weather is currently cooler (so the water coming out of the tap is cooler) but this chiller works as advertised. My son and I are new to beer brewing and we did not have a chiller for our first brew. Having this chiller for our second brew was a game changer and worked great.
There is a small leak where the plastic hose and copper fittings attach. This created a steady drip while running water through the chiller. I noticed it right away so only a few drops got in my wort before I shifted the chiller so that the fittings sat outside the upper lip of the pot. Otherwise, the chiller worked great- was able to go from approx 212° to 75° in under 15 minutes.
This item kind of works, especially if you live in a cold climate or own a glycol chiller. If you are brewing in summer, equipment designed to work with tap water, obviously won't get your beer to the appropriate temperature, especially lagers in a satisfactory timeframe. I also found my chiller to be a pain to clean at times. Some brewing equipment professionals suggest that the stainless steel options may work better for home brewers. I also looked at the plate type exchange models that get immersed in ice or ice water, I think they work much better but do cost significantly more.