Wort Chillers For 50 Litre Keg

[Darren]

What about a dry ice pre-chiller. This would be great for you FNQ and NT boys.
Found here.

Beers,
Doc

I wouldn't be suprised to find that would freeze your chiller water. Hence, NO flow

 

[Jazman]

tl i before i use the cfc i run real hot boiling water through it to sanitize then when i finish and and clean the kettle out of hop debri and break material i then run through another hot boiling water to clean it i run about 4 litres to clean so far it be ok but time will tell dont want no infections

 

[dicko]

Jazman,
That is exactly what I do and it is spot on. I have no probs at all doing it that way and it is simple. You can use this method wether or not you have a pump.

I, like many others used to worry about how it all worked but any CFWC that has been discussed will work just fine.
As far as water consumption is concerned, I think you would find that an immersion chiller would use a lot more water to achieve the same temp as a CFWC.

IMHO water consumption is not a problem as you can run it on the garden or into a drum and save it, or, down the drain, after all water is still less than $1.00 per kilolitre in most parts and most brewers would use more water washing and cleaning 30 king browns or 60 stubbies than cooling 23 litres of wort in a few minutes.
Cheers,

 

[BrentonSpear]

So to make a cfwc is it just a matter of feeding the 3/8" pipe into the 1/2" pipe and bending the whole lot around something and braising suitable ends onto the pipes?

Is there any issues with the internal pipe touching the external pipe, etc?

 

[RobW]

Has anybody used or bought the CFWCs that Goliath & Grumpys sell? They look hard to beat for the price.