Can an auto-siphon and a chiller linked together?
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Elysium
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It is a home-made...copper chiller (spiral shaped). On both ends with some plastic tubes.....
If this is related to your other post then no. You can't auto siphon boiling liquids. You would have to either chill in place or put a drain bulkhead in.
Urban
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Siphoning boiling liquids with an auto siphon makes the auto siphon useless, but an interesting piece of partially melted plastic, almost art like. Years ago I had the bright idea to sanitize one with boiling water, never did that again.
Yeah... I... uh... tried something similar. <shuffles off in embarassment>
BrewingGunner
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It's absolutely amazing how many of us have done this. I kept mine as a reminder. :cross:
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tried to siphon near-boiling water like an idiot, and it warped my siphon pretty badly. Do you think plastic leeched into the beer? Will the flavor be compromised?
inhousebrew
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Haha! I never did this but I totally destroyed a plastic test tube taking boiling liquid before the 60 minute hop addition to get the preboil gravity reading I forgot to take earlier.
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