Wort Chilling Biab (crown Urn)

[eclessia]

Hi All,

I'm just completed my 6th batch of BIAB in my new crown urn and I'm pretty happy with the results.

I haven't had much success with my whirlpools but my beers are still getting decent clarity.

Anyway, I'm starting to think about improving the wort chilling/filtering steps in my process to chill faster so I can pitch on the same day and ideally minimise the amount of trub in the fermenter.

So far I've tried no chill in a cube, no chill in the urn and sanitized ice bricks with varied success, but I'd like more control and a faster brew process and clearer wort.

Can anyone recommend a set up? I brew in my apartment so I don't have a permanent space set up for brewing and I don't have access to a garden hose fitting - only a kitchen tap (unless I run a long garden hose from the washing machine tap).

I was thinking a whirlpool immersion chiller and perhaps a magnetic pump would do the trick - though I haven't seen any whirlpool immersion chillers for sale in Australia. Would this be overkill?

Otherwise would gravity fed plate chiller and a hop sceen (http://www.craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=4209) do the trick?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Mat

 

[Fat Bastard]

Hi Eclessia,

Just started a thread about apartment all grain in the AG section.

I run a mashmaster 30 plate chiller from my kitchen tap. Most taps have an aerator fitting that will unscrew and allow you to fit a hose fitting from bunnings with some stuffing around. If that didn't work, I was just going to cut down a hand shower attachment fitting which is like a rubber cup that clamps around the end of the tap.

Hope that is some help for ya!

 

[eclessia]

Hi Eclessia,

Just started a thread about apartment all grain in the AG section.

I run a mashmaster 30 plate chiller from my kitchen tap. Most taps have an aerator fitting that will unscrew and allow you to fit a hose fitting from bunnings with some stuffing around. If that didn't work, I was just going to cut down a hand shower attachment fitting which is like a rubber cup that clamps around the end of the tap.

Hope that is some help for ya!

Thanks Fat ******* - I'll join in over there.