Anti-no-chill Tips For Bribane Water Resticted Ag Brewers

[SpillsMostOfIt]

Before I started using 'that' method, I would put the lid on my boiler and lift it into a conveniently-placed water feature (like a swimming pool, but only about 500litres) which was usually about a quarter full and had about 30kg ice put into it. With the water restrictions, I let it dry out, but it worked really well...

Perhaps cultivating friends with nearby pools is the answer. You do have to be able to manufacture a fair bit of ice, though...

 

[BrissyBrew]

one I get my water tank the cooling water is going to go straight back into the tank.

 

[The King of Spain]

one I get my water tank the cooling water is going to go straight back into the tank.

I get 25L down to about 40C in 10min doing that - I have a pump with a good flow rate. Makes is safe to handle from here

Bit of cold water still helps, especially in hot weather when the ambient is working against you. I still swich to a fish pump with cold water at about 30C to get down pitching temp.

 

[lokpikn]

I have got an immersion chiller and also a plate chiller i put the immersion chiller in to the fridge some days

before hand and use a mash master temp controller to get the fridge in to the minus deg which gives me a 20

to 25 ltr solid block of ice with the immersion chiller stuck solid and them use this as a pre-chiller for the block

chiller. I still have to shake the immersion chiller around when the ice starts to melt and it keeps it nice and cool

comes out around almost at pitching temp.

 

[danman]

im in the process of designing an esky with a submerged fountain pump that should be easily bought from my local hardware store,full of ice and water running thru an immersion chiller and back into the esky to provide a cooled water recirculation system. the ice i guess would need to topped up periodically due to heat transfer and meltage but i think in our current water restrictions this should prove to be a good enough system. depends on how cheap i can get a pump for tho i guess.

has anyone done this before? any comments welcomed :beerbang:

cheers,dan

 

[TidalPete]

im in the process of designing an esky with a submerged fountain pump that should be easily bought from my local hardware store,full of ice and water running thru an immersion chiller and back into the esky to provide a cooled water recirculation system. the ice i guess would need to topped up periodically due to heat transfer and meltage but i think in our current water restrictions this should prove to be a good enough system. depends on how cheap i can get a pump for tho i guess.

has anyone done this before? any comments welcomed :beerbang:

cheers,dan

I do danman. Another thread way back found that a Bianco Fountain Pump from Bunnings (About $20 from memory) was the best cheap pump to use & almost two years on it's still going strong for me.

:beer:

 

[Duff]

im in the process of designing an esky with a submerged fountain pump that should be easily bought from my local hardware store,full of ice and water running thru an immersion chiller and back into the esky to provide a cooled water recirculation system. the ice i guess would need to topped up periodically due to heat transfer and meltage but i think in our current water restrictions this should prove to be a good enough system. depends on how cheap i can get a pump for tho i guess.

has anyone done this before? any comments welcomed :beerbang:

cheers,dan

Dan,

I had a setup like this before going to no-chill. The pond pump pumped through 3 eskies with coils and frozen ice containers, through the immersion. The ice takes a bit of a hammering initially requiring a bit of changing over and overall wasn't too bad.

Cheers.