Are plate chillers good?

Plate chillers have an amazing ability to draw the heat out of your wort. Here’s how they work: cold water runs through plates in one direction and the hot brew interfaces with that cold water by running through the other side in the opposite direction.

How is a plate chiller made?

Inside the plate chiller are multiple stainless steel plates that are welded together. The plates are sandwiched together and hot wort moves in one direction along the sandwiched plates (and cold water in the other direction) while exuding cooler wort (and warm water) in the other direction.

Do I need a pump for a plate chiller?

This is an alternative way to operate the plate chiller. Instead of running the wort directly into the fermenter, you recirculate back into the boil kettle until you reach you desired temperature. It requires a pump to return the wort to the boil kettle.

How do immersion wort chillers work?

A wort chiller works by using a cool water source passing through copper or steel; as the cool water passes through the chiller, it absorbs heat from the wort. Immersion chillers are placed directly in the kettle and chill the wort from inside the kettle.

How much water does a plate chiller use?

Depending on your water pressure, tube length, and tube diameter, I think it could range anywhere from 1 gallon a minute to 10 gallons a minute. Once you have this, you’ll have to scale down to compensate for the area difference between the hose and the tubing.

What is a wort chiller?

A wort chiller is a device that allows the homebrewer to bring boiling wort down to yeast pitching temperature in a fraction of the time an ice bath takes.

Do you need a pump for a plate chiller?

How do you clean a plate chiller?

To remove deposits, soak in a suitable cleaner like Brewer’s Edge Cleanser for 4 hours and then flush. Let dry between uses after it has been flushed. The best way to flush a plate chiller is with a Water Flush Hose, see item L13 at www.williamsbrewing.com. You can also boil this chiller to clean/sanitize it.

How many times have I brewed with a recirculating wort chiller?

I have now brewed 3 times using 3 variations method: Method #1 I recirculated for 100% of the time and just added ice as the water in the bucket warmed up. This worked a little better than the traditional wort chiller method. I had to buy a lot of ice to keep up.

Can a wort chiller be put in an ice bucket?

I have tried placing a large coil of water hose in an ice bucket with the hopes of chilling the ground water, after a few attempts it did not prove to be very effective. So my next test was to use recirculating wort chiller.

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Can you use a plate chiller without pumps?

Without the aid of pumps, I don’t really think a plate chiller is the way to go. Although gravity might work fine for chiller, cleaning and sanitizing the plate chiller with just gravity might be very difficult and time consuming.