Yorg
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After several frustrations getting a wort down to lager pitching temps, not least the cost of ice, I devised a cunning plan and scored a small chest freezer.
Once tap water gets too slow, I'm going to divert to glycol - I'm going to chill a large tub of glycol overnight in the chest freezer, and pump it through my plate chiller, back to the tub.
Should save a lot of water - and my power is 100%green.
Two things.
Would a pond pump cope with subzero temps?
How much glycol at what temp would be needed in the tub to get 20 odd litres down from 25c to about 6C.
Or maybe I should just use glycol from boiling, and avoid water altogether - in which case how much glycol at what temp to get from 100C to 6C
Would the glycol simply be too cold and freeze up the chiller?
Shoud I just make ice?
What do you think?
Once tap water gets too slow, I'm going to divert to glycol - I'm going to chill a large tub of glycol overnight in the chest freezer, and pump it through my plate chiller, back to the tub.
Should save a lot of water - and my power is 100%green.
Two things.
Would a pond pump cope with subzero temps?
How much glycol at what temp would be needed in the tub to get 20 odd litres down from 25c to about 6C.
Or maybe I should just use glycol from boiling, and avoid water altogether - in which case how much glycol at what temp to get from 100C to 6C
Would the glycol simply be too cold and freeze up the chiller?
Shoud I just make ice?
What do you think?