oldmacdonald
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Hi everyone,
Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been wanting to get into home brew for a while now but was never keen on washing bottles and expected to jump straight into kegging. That's still the plan but I picked up a chiller at an auction on the weekend which has motivated me to get into some serious planning. I've got a few projects to finish before I'll be allowed to get right into the brewing.
I have been trying to find some info on this chiller I bought - it's a Cold Flow make and the model appears to be Concord. As far as I can tell it has four coils for four separate beverage lines and a pump for circulating coolant, presumably through a flooded font.
Is there anything particular I should know about this thing? Here's some photos, I got it for $40, which my initail research suggests was quite a good buy.
The plan is to run a flooded font, given the cost of them I think it's probably best to go straight for a quadruple font as I'll no doubt want to make full use of the chiller eventually, probably with a couple of beers, one for premix spirits and possibly one for cold water.
As for regulators, I'm guessing I should go straight for a double reg - one for dispensing and one for carbonating. Can I hook up more than one gas dispensing outlet, assuming all the kegs require the same dispensing pressure?
I know most of you guys have keg fridges or converted freezers, but I have clear instructions that bastardised fridges will not be allowed in the house. The idea of a beer tap on the bar on the deck has approval (with enthusiasm) from the boss. I expect it's preferable to keep your brews in the fridge, but this is not feasible with the space I have available (under the outside kitchen bench/bar I'm going to build on the deck I'm in the middle of building (one of the projects I have to finish before I start brewing).
Just want to get an idea of if I'm on the right track and if there's anything special I need to consider as I start assembling my system. I'm not in a huge hurry but I want to do it properly the first time and not have to replace anything (hence the 4-way font and double reg). Also if anyone can point me in the dierction of some info on my chiller that would be great as well.
Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been wanting to get into home brew for a while now but was never keen on washing bottles and expected to jump straight into kegging. That's still the plan but I picked up a chiller at an auction on the weekend which has motivated me to get into some serious planning. I've got a few projects to finish before I'll be allowed to get right into the brewing.
I have been trying to find some info on this chiller I bought - it's a Cold Flow make and the model appears to be Concord. As far as I can tell it has four coils for four separate beverage lines and a pump for circulating coolant, presumably through a flooded font.
Is there anything particular I should know about this thing? Here's some photos, I got it for $40, which my initail research suggests was quite a good buy.
The plan is to run a flooded font, given the cost of them I think it's probably best to go straight for a quadruple font as I'll no doubt want to make full use of the chiller eventually, probably with a couple of beers, one for premix spirits and possibly one for cold water.
As for regulators, I'm guessing I should go straight for a double reg - one for dispensing and one for carbonating. Can I hook up more than one gas dispensing outlet, assuming all the kegs require the same dispensing pressure?
I know most of you guys have keg fridges or converted freezers, but I have clear instructions that bastardised fridges will not be allowed in the house. The idea of a beer tap on the bar on the deck has approval (with enthusiasm) from the boss. I expect it's preferable to keep your brews in the fridge, but this is not feasible with the space I have available (under the outside kitchen bench/bar I'm going to build on the deck I'm in the middle of building (one of the projects I have to finish before I start brewing).
Just want to get an idea of if I'm on the right track and if there's anything special I need to consider as I start assembling my system. I'm not in a huge hurry but I want to do it properly the first time and not have to replace anything (hence the 4-way font and double reg). Also if anyone can point me in the dierction of some info on my chiller that would be great as well.
