Chilling
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Bräu Supply vs Spike Wort Chiller: Stainless vs CopperTwo coil-in-coil counterflow chillers: ours is stainless end to end with about 20 ft of tubing; Spike's has a 16 ft copper inner tube. Specs, prices and which to buy.
How to Size a Glycol Chiller for Your FermentersThree heat loads decide the chiller you need: pulling the beer down, holding it against fermentation heat, and cold-crashing. Work through them with a worked 1 BBL example and a...
Copper vs Stainless Counterflow Chillers: What Actually MattersCopper conducts heat 25 times better than stainless, and it barely matters in a coil-in-coil chiller. Here is why, and why we build ours from 304 stainless anyway.
The Importance of Quickly Chilling Your WortChill wort to pitching temperature within about 20 to 30 minutes. Here is why it matters, target temperatures, and how immersion, counterflow and plate chillers compare.
How to Use a Counterflow Wort Chiller: Setup, Flow, CleaningA counterflow chiller drops boiling wort to pitching temperature in one pass. Here is how we hook one up, throttle it, sanitize it in the last ten minutes of the...
Steam Condenser for Indoor Brewing: How It Works and How to Set It UpA steam condenser turns boil steam back into water so you can brew indoors without an exhaust hood. How it works, how to set it up, how it changes your...
Plate chillers: perks and pitfallsPlate chillers cool wort in minutes but are harder to clean. Here is how they work, how to keep them clean, and how they compare with counterflow chillers.
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