Lucky_Chicken
Well-Known Member
So a friend of mine and I were looking at the wort chillers and thought 30 min was a long time to cool it off (we cool off 1000 lb-ft desil engines with 100 degree air in no time). So... we designed and built this. It cools 5 gallon boils down to ~60 in just under 7 minutes. Not sure if that is good for the beer or not but it sure causes a lot of junk to drop out of solution and so far the beers have been good that I've used it with.
What I started with:
Coils:
I wove solid copper wire and soldered the joints to make it stiffer... worked like a charm. After a couple boiling water baths to get it clean we were in business!
What I started with:
![DSCF3120.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/07e/07e53f00b49f455861da47ad1f0f07da.jpg)
Coils:
![DSCF3123.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/967/967a045b6350db26f1a6240833d316e5.jpg)
I wove solid copper wire and soldered the joints to make it stiffer... worked like a charm. After a couple boiling water baths to get it clean we were in business!
![DSCF3130.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/8d9/8d97218b0871e0732b1980c7de2b51e0.jpg)