Ok guys, just an idea we thought about. Don't know if it has been discussed here or not. I did a search, but it didn't come up with anything. If someone knows of a thread please PM and I will ask to have this thread deleted. On to the idea.
Ok so my idea is to connect 50 or so feet of thin-walled vinyl food grade tubing to a barb connected to a ball valve on my boil kettle (of course this would be connected after flame out and I would have insulation or something around the ball valve during boil). I would then coil the tubing around the outside of a corny keg and run the other end into a carboy. I would fill the corny with ice water and place the corny with tubing in a rubbermaid trash can. It would also be filled with ice water. Once everything is in place, open the ball valve and let 'er rip. I had also thought about drilling some small holes in a piece a rigid plastic tubing and placing it in the end of the of the vinyl tubing to introduce some oxygen as the wort exits the tubing. Does this sound like a stupid idea (not enough heat transfer/HSA/etc.)? Any input would be great appreciated.
The reason for this madness is I'm a cheap bastard and have most of the stuff around the house. Copper is still $$$$ and I'm interested to see if this works.
Ok so my idea is to connect 50 or so feet of thin-walled vinyl food grade tubing to a barb connected to a ball valve on my boil kettle (of course this would be connected after flame out and I would have insulation or something around the ball valve during boil). I would then coil the tubing around the outside of a corny keg and run the other end into a carboy. I would fill the corny with ice water and place the corny with tubing in a rubbermaid trash can. It would also be filled with ice water. Once everything is in place, open the ball valve and let 'er rip. I had also thought about drilling some small holes in a piece a rigid plastic tubing and placing it in the end of the of the vinyl tubing to introduce some oxygen as the wort exits the tubing. Does this sound like a stupid idea (not enough heat transfer/HSA/etc.)? Any input would be great appreciated.
The reason for this madness is I'm a cheap bastard and have most of the stuff around the house. Copper is still $$$$ and I'm interested to see if this works.