Homebrew How-To: 8 Tips for Using a Plate Chiller
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Plate chillers, such as the Terminator from Blichmann Engineering cool boiling wort to room temperature in seconds. Here are 8 tips on how to get the most out of your plate chiller.
Great video. What i found that works without a plate chiller is to fill a bucket full of ice while you're brewing and when time to chill, fill up with normal hose water. Gravity feed that into a wort chiller and you'll go from 212 to 71F in 20 minutes and save $$
I make a solution with lye and recirculate it back into my brew kettle. Hot water and lye does a great job. It’s scary how the water turns brown in the brew kettle. This will also keep your efficiency high as it clears everything out!
Great stuff! II just recently upgraded to a plate chiller. Cheers!
Best thing I’ve done to ensure it’s totally sanitized AFTER the brew day before storing it is bake it for an hour at 400°F. It boils out any water inside and totally sanitizes any of the tiny bits left over in any nooks and crannies inside.
Run a cleaning circuit using caustic.
Good viedo
Great video! the quick and connect hoses are just the works!! thnx. What kind of pump you are using? can you control the wort flow by squeezing the hose? not to much pressure building up for the pump?
Question: I dont have a glycol chiller yet, but does anyone run circulating glycol through the plate chiller instead of water?
how about if you were put the immersion chiller in the bucket with water,
but feed it through the top with some bulk head fittings and place a lid over the bucket with a vent cap and place it in a mini fridge to keep the water consistently chilled? you could rig the vent cap to a hose and have it run outside the fridge to prevent heat from building in the fridge.
Hi Martin! Thanks for the disconnect tip! Where abouts did you find the disconnects for this setup? Can you possibly supply a link please?
Sure, these are the quick disconnects I use: www.morebeer.com/products/stainless-steel-quick-disconnect-female-qd-12-mpt.html
Cheers thanks brotha!
I got a plate chiller, but I tried draining it, and there is still water in there I can hear and feel it as I shake the plate chiller, is it bad to leave it in there?
Do you ever run Pbw through it?
Can i chill wort to room temperature just in one turn? I mean passing wort through. Is it that effective?
Martin Keen thanks, i am just thinking to buy one) how much plates your chiller have?
instead of using the immersion chiller in series, could you just immerse the plate chiller itself into a bucket of ice water? you wont need a tray anymore either since its in a bucket.
Yea let me know how it works! I'm just a beginning home-brewer myself, so I look forward to watching some more of your videos. Thanks.
That won't work very well. The outside of the plate chiller is the only heat transfer surface to get extra cooling. The immersion chiller has much more surface area so it will cool the water off a lot more. Granted an immersion chiller costs a lot more than a bucket...
This method wont work very well if at all. The outside of a plate chiller during use is blazing hot in some places, but the majority is rather cool. Just like Ryan's reply, there isnt enough surface area to transfer any energy. The described method of pre-chilling the chill water with an immersion coil in ice water is the preferred, proven, and manufacture recommended method.
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